John Wetten Elementary School

As an expansive K-5 school in Gladstone, Oregon, John Wetten Elementary School educates 589 students from grades 1 through 5, part of Gladstone SD 115. That puts it 83% larger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Gladstone SD 115 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,600 students. John Wetten Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, John Wetten Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Clackamas County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, John Wetten Elementary School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at John Wetten Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Clackamas County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, John Wetten Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 36.1%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Clackamas County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,517 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which John Wetten Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gladstone Center for Children and Families, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John Wetten Elementary School. On composite proficiency, John Wetten Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

John Wetten Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Wetten Elementary School has shrank 24%, going from 778 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 75% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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