Hollydale Elementary School

Hollydale Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Gresham, Oregon, operated by Gresham-Barlow SD 10J, with 474 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 48% larger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Gresham-Barlow SD 10J comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 11,345 students; Hollydale Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hollydale Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hollydale Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hollydale Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Hollydale Elementary School is one.

Centennial High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hollydale Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hollydale Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Hollydale Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 474). White enrollment moved from 51% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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