Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School

Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Milwaukie, Oregon, part of North Clackamas SD 12. Current enrollment sits at 408 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School sits 27% above that benchmark.

North Clackamas SD 12 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 16,837 students. Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 40% White, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Clackamas County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Clackamas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $103,517 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Milwaukie High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School has ticked up 43%, going from 285 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 66% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

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