James John Elementary School

James John Elementary School operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Portland, Oregon, one of the schools within Portland SD 1J. Current enrollment sits at 367 students spanning grades K through 5.

James John Elementary School is one of 86 schools operated by Portland SD 1J, a district that caters to 41,894 students overall.

On the student-mix side, James John Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 32% White, 11% multiracial, 8% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, James John Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.2%; this one delivers 27.0%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) logs that median household income runs about $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), James John Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Roosevelt High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, James John Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

James John Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 368 students in 2018 compared to 367 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 39% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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