Hammond Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Salem, Oregon, Hammond Elementary School educates 460 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Salem-Keizer SD 24J. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Hammond Elementary School sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 37,776 students. Hammond Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hammond Elementary School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Hammond Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at Hammond Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hammond Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.3%, the actual is 21.1%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Marion County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), Hammond Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Stephens Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hammond Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 18.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Hammond Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 460). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 53% to 63% over that span.

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