Highland Elementary School

Highland Elementary School is a mid-tier K-5 school in Gresham, Oregon, run under Gresham-Barlow SD 10J. The school caters to 465 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Highland Elementary School sits 45% bigger than that benchmark.

Highland Elementary School is one of 20 schools operated by Gresham-Barlow SD 10J, a district that educates 11,345 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Highland Elementary School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%; the rest comes out to 25% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 14% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Highland Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.4%; actual is 14.2%, a gap of -16.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Multnomah County put median household earnings sit near $88,766, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Highland Elementary School is one.

Gresham Arthur Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.9%.

Highland Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 522 (now 465). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 41% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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