McGovern Elementary School

Set in Winston, Oregon, McGovern Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary-level community, part of Winston-Dillard SD 116. It enrolls 229 students across grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 321 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Within Winston-Dillard SD 116, which oversees 6 schools and 1,292 students, McGovern Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, McGovern Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting McGovern Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, McGovern Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Douglas County) logs that median household earnings sit near $61,310, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Douglas County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,417 students), of which McGovern Elementary School is one.

Douglas High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, McGovern Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. McGovern Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 247 (now 229). Over the same period, the White share fell from 83% to 78%. Class-load math has fell: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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