McKinley Elementary School

McKinley Elementary School is a big elementary-level community in Beaverton, Oregon, one of the schools within Beaverton SD 48J. The school educates 666 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 107% larger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Within Beaverton SD 48J, which oversees 56 schools and 37,479 students, McKinley Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, McKinley Elementary School reports that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% White, 12% Asian, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at McKinley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, McKinley Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.2%; McKinley Elementary School posts 22.4%, -18.8 points below that line.

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

FLEX Online School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, McKinley Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

McKinley Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McKinley Elementary School has rose 7%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 666 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 36% to 26% over that span.

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