Margaret Scott Elementary School

Margaret Scott Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school in Portland, Oregon, one of the schools within Reynolds SD 7. The school serves 361 students in grades K through 5.

Reynolds SD 7 comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 9,631 students; Margaret Scott Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Margaret Scott Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (26%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Black, 18% White, 11% Asian, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 101% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Margaret Scott Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.6%; this one delivers 16.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate median household earnings sit near $88,766, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Margaret Scott Elementary School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

The closest other public school is Wheatley School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 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), Margaret Scott Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 13.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Margaret Scott Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 361). Class-load math has fell: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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