Jewett Elementary School

As a sizable elementary school in Central Point, Oregon, Jewett Elementary School educates 607 students from grades K through 5, part of Central Point SD 6. That puts it 89% bigger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Central Point SD 6 comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,241 students; Jewett Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Jewett Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Jewett Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Jewett Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.7%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,999 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), Jewett Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central Point Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jewett Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 601 students in 2018 compared to 607 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 67% to 53%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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