Mill Park Elementary School

Mill Park Elementary School is a K-5 school of sprawling scale in Portland, Oregon, one of the schools within David Douglas SD 40, educateing 494 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Mill Park Elementary School sits 54% above that benchmark.

David Douglas SD 40 runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 8,716 students. Mill Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mill Park Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 21% White, 19% Asian, 14% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 110% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Mill Park Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: West Powellhurst Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mill Park Elementary School has declined 5%, going from 522 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 21% across the same window.

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