Miller Elementary School

Miller Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in Salem, Oregon, part of Salem-Keizer SD 24J. Current enrollment sits at 318 students spanning grades K through 5.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 37,776 students; Miller Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Miller Elementary School logs that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 32% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Pacific Islander, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Miller Elementary School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Miller Elementary School qualify 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), Miller Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), Miller Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Houck Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Miller Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 12.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Miller Elementary School has contracted 24%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 47% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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