Mary Woodward Elementary School

As a mid-tier primary school in Tigard, Oregon, Mary Woodward Elementary School teaches 417 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Mary Woodward Elementary School sits 30% above that benchmark.

Tigard-Tualatin SD 23J comprises 19 schools with combined enrollment of 11,342 students; Mary Woodward Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Mary Woodward Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mary Woodward Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 51.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $107,772, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), Mary Woodward Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Thomas R Fowler Middle School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mary Woodward Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Woodward Elementary School has declined 22%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 417 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 57% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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