Irvington Elementary School

Set in Portland, Oregon, Irvington Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, run under Portland SD 1J. It instructs 249 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% smaller than the state mean of about 321.

Portland SD 1J runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 41,894 students. Irvington Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Irvington Elementary School records that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Irvington Elementary School shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Irvington Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Irvington Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Irvington Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of +12.9 points.

Across the wider county, Multnomah County reports that median household earnings sit near $88,766, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), Irvington Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Harriet Tubman Middle School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Irvington Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Irvington Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 46%: 459 students in 2018 compared to 249 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 20% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.