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Enrollment
417
Elementary
DISTRICT 420 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TIGARD-TUALATIN SD 23J·NCES 411224001299
Mary Woodward Elementary School
12325 SW Katherine St, Tigard, OR 97223 · (503) 431-4700 · Washington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL417 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Oregon public elementary schools
- A-Test 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
17.7:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
240 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 76%
Community
1
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 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
62%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
61.7%
OR avg 43.0% . -3.5pp since 2023
Math
56.8%
OR avg 31.8% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.7% | 56.8% |
| 2023-24 | 65.2% | 51.1% |
% 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
51.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Mary Woodward Elementary School
Mary Woodward Elementary School's state test result (51.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Woodward Elementary School this school | 417 | 57.6% | 51.8% |
| Bilquist Elementary School Milwaukie | 373 | 58.4% | 22.1% |
| Verne A Duncan Elementary School Happy Valley | 400 | 58.0% | 39.0% |
| Cooper Mountain Elementary School Beaverton | 384 | 50.5% | 49.6% |
| Bessie Coleman Elementary School Corvallis | 351 | 57.5% | 60.0% |
| Sunnyside Elementary School Clackamas | 402 | 58.2% | 33.2% |
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 Mary Woodward Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #110 of 591 | #28 of 86 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #94 of 646 ▲ 36 | #26 of 89 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.7% | #109 of 646 ▼ 29 | #26 of 89 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 417 | #176 of 710 | #32 of 89 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #372 of 587 | #56 of 86 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #130 of 587 | #47 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.6% | #505 of 645 | #54 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.9% | #210 of 493 | #35 of 70 |
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
417
-107 (-20%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 417 | 23.6 | 17.7:1 | 58% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 451 | 24.3 | 18.6:1 | 29% (130) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 27.2 | 17.7:1 | 20% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 30 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 28.4 | 18.8:1 | 15% (79) |
| 2015-16 | 505 | 24 | 21.0:1 | 18% (93) |
| 2010-11 | 467 | 21 | 22.2:1 | 14% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 672 | 31 | 21.7:1 | 6% (41) |
| 1990-91 | 632 | 28 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary Woodward Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (534 to 417); teachers down 17% (28.4 to 23.6).
About Mary Woodward Elementary School
Mary Woodward Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Tigard, Oregon. Enrollment totals 417 students across kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Oregon, the average enrollment is about 321.
Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J is made up of 19 schools with 11,342 students in all.
The student body at Mary Woodward Elementary School is 57% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 17% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian, and 2% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
For every teacher at Mary Woodward Elementary School, there are about 17.7 students; the school has 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Oregon, 16.5:1, is lower. There are 240 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 58% of enrollment. Public schools in Washington County average a similar 57%.
Among Oregon public elementary schools, Mary Woodward Elementary School outscored 80%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 40.2% for a school in Oregon with Mary Woodward Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Mary Woodward Elementary School posts 51.8%.
The school is in Washington County, where the median household earns about $107,772 a year, about 48% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Mary Woodward Elementary School shares Washington County with 135 other public schools.
Thomas R Fowler Middle School sits about 0.7 miles from Mary Woodward Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 51.8% average proficiency ranks 2nd among 9 nearby schools.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 524 to 417, a 20% decline.
The allk12 page for Mary Woodward Elementary School lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
603,947
Census ACS
Median income
$107,772
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
136
79,469 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J
- Tigard High SchoolHigh · 1,771 students
- Tualatin High SchoolHigh · 1,687 students
- Twality Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- Hazelbrook Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
- Thomas R Fowler Middle SchoolMiddle · 744 students
- Metzger Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
Other schools in Tigard
- Tigard High SchoolHigh · 1,771 students
- Twality Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,006 students
- Thomas R Fowler Middle SchoolMiddle · 744 students
- Metzger Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
- James Templeton Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Deer Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas R Fowler Middle School0.7 mi · 744
- Conestoga Middle School0.9 mi · 810
- Charles F Tigard Elementary School1.1 mi · 460
- Southridge High School1.1 mi · 1,430
- Greenway Elementary School1.4 mi · 272
- Alberta Rider Elementary School1.5 mi · 367
Frequently asked questions
About Mary Woodward Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mary Woodward Elementary School?
Mary Woodward Elementary School enrolls approximately 417 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Mary Woodward Elementary School serve?
Mary Woodward Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Mary Woodward Elementary School have?
Mary Woodward Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.7:1.
How diverse is Mary Woodward Elementary School?
Mary Woodward Elementary School reports a student body of 57% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 10% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Mary Woodward Elementary School public or private?
Mary Woodward Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.