Enrollment
267
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTLAND SD 1J·NCES 411004000916
Lewis Elementary School
4401 SE Evergreen St, Portland, OR 97206 · (503) 916-6360 · Multnomah County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL267 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% of Oregon public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
113 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 76%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
66.4%
OR avg 43.0% . -7.3pp since 2023
Math
59.4%
OR avg 31.8% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.4% | 59.4% |
| 2023-24 | 73.7% | 57.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.1%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lewis Elementary School
Lewis Elementary School's state test result (59.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Elementary School this school | 267 | 42.3% | 59.8% |
| Skyline Elementary School Portland | 226 | 41.6% | 65.2% |
| Stephenson Elementary School Portland | 285 | 41.8% | 73.0% |
| Maplewood Elementary School Portland | 296 | 41.6% | 57.2% |
| Winterhaven School Portland | 322 | 41.6% | 81.0% |
| Capitol Hill Elementary School Portland | 323 | 41.8% | 59.7% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lewis Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Multnomah County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #62 of 591 | #18 of 78 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.4% | #69 of 646 ▲ 22 | #24 of 109 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.4% | #79 of 646 ▼ 45 | #24 of 109 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 267 | #469 of 710 | #87 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #356 of 587 | #64 of 101 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.7% | #312 of 587 | #80 of 101 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.3% | #590 of 645 | #67 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.4% | #68 of 493 | #23 of 89 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
267
-101 (-27%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 338
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 18.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 267 | 15.3 | 17.5:1 | 42% (113) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 16.8 | 17.7:1 | 29% (87) |
| 2022-23 | 320 | 18.4 | 17.4:1 | 19% (60) |
| 2020-21 | 368 | 20 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 389 | 23.4 | 16.6:1 | 23% (88) |
| 2015-16 | 383 | 19 | 20.2:1 | 30% (115) |
| 2010-11 | 396 | 20 | 19.8:1 | 41% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 292 | 15 | 19.5:1 | 37% (107) |
| 1990-91 | 338 | 19 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lewis Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (389 to 267); teachers down 35% (23.4 to 15.3).
About Lewis Elementary School
Lewis Elementary School is a small elementary school in Portland, Oregon, one of the schools in Portland SD 1J. It educates 267 students in kindergarten through 5.
Portland SD 1J oversees Lewis Elementary School and 85 other schools, with 41,894 students in total.
White students make up a majority at Lewis Elementary School, at 67%. The remaining shares are 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. The White share in Multnomah County as a whole is similar, at about 68%. Lewis Elementary School's diversity index is 50%, against a US figure of 70%.
Lewis Elementary School counts 15.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 17.5 students for each one. On average, elementary schools in Oregon have 16.5:1, compared with 17.5:1 here. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Multnomah County report 75%.
allk12 grades Lewis Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Oregon public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at Lewis Elementary School are 13.6 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (59.8% actual, 46.1% predicted).
Across Multnomah County, the median household income is $88,766, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. In all, Multnomah County has 169 public schools and roughly 81,096 students.
The nearest other public school, Woodstock Elementary School, is about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, Lewis Elementary School is 2nd among 6 schools close by.
Lewis Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 27% from 2020-21, when Lewis Elementary School had 368 students, to 2024-25, when it had 267.
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Multnomah County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
801,477
Census ACS
Median income
$88,766
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
81,096 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Portland SD 1J
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
Other schools in Portland
- David Douglas High SchoolHigh · 2,756 students
- Westview High SchoolHigh · 2,423 students
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
Other Lewis Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 7 states are named Lewis Elementary. Lewis Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 10.
- Lewis Elementary SchoolFORNEY, TX · 738 students
- Lewis Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 675 students
- Lewis Elementary SchoolKennesaw, GA · 550 students
- LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTEMPLE TERRACE, FL · 546 students
- Lewis Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 437 students
Nearby schools
- Woodstock Elementary School0.6 mi · 393
- Duniway Elementary School0.6 mi · 387
- Lane Middle School0.8 mi · 417
- Ardenwald Elementary School1.1 mi · 396
- Arleta Elementary School1.4 mi · 252
- Grout Elementary School1.4 mi · 295
Frequently asked questions
About Lewis Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lewis Elementary School?
Lewis Elementary School enrolls approximately 267 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Lewis Elementary School serve?
Lewis Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lewis Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lewis Elementary School is approximately 17.5:1 (15 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lewis Elementary School?
At Lewis Elementary School, the student body is approximately 67% White, 12% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Lewis Elementary School public or private?
Lewis Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Portland SD 1J.
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