Enrollment
252
Elementary
DISTRICT 297 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEBANON COMMUNITY SD 9·NCES 410738000696
Hamilton Creek School
32135 Berlin Rd, Lebanon, OR 97355 · (541) 451-8574 · Linn County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL252 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of Oregon public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
219 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 76%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 21 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 37 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 27 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (24) is 11% smaller than its 8th grade class (27).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Hamilton Creek School→Lebanon High School
Based on grade levels within Lebanon Community SD 9. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
36.0%
OR avg 43.0% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
28.8%
OR avg 31.8% . +8.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 28.8% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 20.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.9%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hamilton Creek School
Hamilton Creek School's state test result (24.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Creek School this school | 252 | 86.9% | 24.5% |
| Ocean Crest Elementary School Bandon | 240 | 88.3% | 48.9% |
| Green Elementary School Roseburg | 262 | 88.9% | 26.3% |
| Pioneer School Lebanon | 261 | 89.7% | 35.7% |
| Crestview Heights School Waldport | 264 | 89.4% | 31.3% |
| Brooklyn Primary School Baker City | 249 | 81.9% | 25.9% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hamilton Creek School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #452 of 591 | #19 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #389 of 646 ▲ 132 | #17 of 27 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #411 of 646 ▲ 1 | #17 of 27 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 252 | #501 of 710 | #18 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #298 of 587 | #11 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.9% | #503 of 587 | #13 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.9% | #215 of 645 | #7 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.9% | #276 of 493 | #10 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
252
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
+3% since 2000-01, when it was 245
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 252 | 14.9 | 17.0:1 | 87% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 260 | 15.4 | 16.9:1 | 70% (183) |
| 2022-23 | 277 | 17.2 | 16.1:1 | 69% (190) |
| 2020-21 | 261 | 17 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 307 | 16.4 | 18.7:1 | 48% (146) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 15 | 19.3:1 | 61% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 351 | 16 | 21.9:1 | 51% (180) |
| 2000-01 | 245 | 11 | 22.3:1 | 39% (96) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hamilton Creek School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (307 to 252); teachers down 10% (16.4 to 14.9).
About Hamilton Creek School
Hamilton Creek School is a low-enrollment elementary school in Lebanon, Oregon, (ZIP code 97355). The school's enrollment of 252 students covers kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 21% lower than the average for elementary schools in Oregon, which is about 321.
Lebanon Community SD 9 runs Hamilton Creek School along with 8 other schools, enrolling 3,916 students in total.
Hamilton Creek School is 79% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 13% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. Hamilton Creek School's diversity index is 36%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its 14.9 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 17.0:1. That matches the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 87%. That is higher than the 79% average for public schools in Linn County.
Hamilton Creek School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 25% of Oregon public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 28.9% for Hamilton Creek School. The school posts 24.5%, 4.3 points below the prediction.
Within Linn County, the median household income is $76,329, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Hamilton Creek School, Linn County has 47 other public schools.
The nearest public school is Seven Oak Middle School, at about 2.8 miles. Around the school, 7 other public schools are within five miles. Hamilton Creek School places 5th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment has fallen by 9 students since 2020-21, to 252. The number of students per teacher rose from 15.3 to 17.0 over 4 years.
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Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,706
Census ACS
Median income
$76,329
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
17,916 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lebanon Community SD 9
- Lebanon High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Seven Oak Middle SchoolMiddle · 676 students
- Riverview SchoolElementary · 423 students
- Sand Ridge Charter SchoolElementary · 359 students
- Green Acres SchoolElementary · 293 students
- Cascades SchoolElementary · 262 students
Other schools in Lebanon
- Lebanon High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Seven Oak Middle SchoolMiddle · 676 students
- Riverview SchoolElementary · 423 students
- Sand Ridge Charter SchoolElementary · 359 students
- Green Acres SchoolElementary · 293 students
- Cascades SchoolElementary · 262 students
Nearby schools
- Seven Oak Middle School2.8 mi · 676
- Sand Ridge Charter School2.8 mi · 359
- Riverview School2.9 mi · 423
- Lebanon High School4.0 mi · 1,162
- Cascades School4.0 mi · 262
- Green Acres School4.6 mi · 293
Frequently asked questions
About Hamilton Creek SchoolHow large is Hamilton Creek School?
Hamilton Creek School enrolls approximately 252 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Hamilton Creek School serve?
Hamilton Creek School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hamilton Creek School?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at Hamilton Creek School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hamilton Creek School?
At Hamilton Creek School, the student body is approximately 79% White, 13% Hispanic, 8% Two or more.
Is Hamilton Creek School public or private?
Hamilton Creek School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lebanon Community SD 9.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.