Letitia Carson Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Corvallis, Oregon, Letitia Carson Elementary School enrolls 333 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Corvallis SD 509J.

Within Corvallis SD 509J, which oversees 13 schools and 5,916 students, Letitia Carson Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Letitia Carson Elementary School logs that 67% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Letitia Carson Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 57% of students at Letitia Carson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Letitia Carson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Benton County indicate median household income runs about $77,702, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Benton County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,268 students), Letitia Carson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Linus Pauling Middle School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Letitia Carson Elementary School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Letitia Carson Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 333 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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