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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
408
Elementary
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH CLACKAMAS SD 12·NCES 410883001584
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School
11250 SE 27th Ave, Milwaukie, OR 97222 · (503) 353-5480 · Clackamas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL408 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Oregon public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
240 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
39.6%
OR avg 43.0% . -0.5pp since 2023
Math
31.7%
OR avg 31.8% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.6% | 31.7% |
| 2023-24 | 40.1% | 32.5% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School this school | 408 | 58.8% | 33.2% |
| Garfield Elementary School Corvallis | 378 | 57.1% | 32.6% |
| River Road/El Camino del Rio Elementary School Eugene | 416 | 63.7% | 34.5% |
| Candy Lane Elementary School Milwaukie | 363 | 54.5% | 27.3% |
| Bridgeport Elementary School Tualatin | 531 | 57.8% | 36.5% |
| Chehalem Elementary School Beaverton | 396 | 55.6% | 40.3% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #310 of 591 | #44 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #351 of 646 ▼ 15 | #49 of 66 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #351 of 646 ▼ 17 | #48 of 66 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 408 | #188 of 710 | #26 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #292 of 587 | #31 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #169 of 587 | #16 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #484 of 645 | #25 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +43.2% | #6 of 88 | #1 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
408
+10 (+3%) vs 2020
+89% since 2010-11, when it was 216
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 408 | 24.1 | 16.9:1 | 59% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 430 | 23.1 | 18.6:1 | 69% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 418 | 25.3 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 24 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 285 | 13.3 | 21.4:1 | 55% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 228 | 10 | 22.8:1 | 57% (130) |
| 2010-11 | 216 | 11 | 19.6:1 | 50% (109) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 43% (285 to 408); teachers up 81% (13.3 to 24.1).
About Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Milwaukie, Oregon. It enrolled 408 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Oregon average about 321 students each.
North Clackamas SD 12 includes 31 schools. Together they enroll 16,837 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 49%. The remaining students are 40% White and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Clackamas County is about 10% Hispanic. Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School's diversity index is 59%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 24.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Oregon average 16.5:1. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School is 59%. That rate is above the 50% average among public schools in Clackamas County.
allk12 grades Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Oregon public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Oregon with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 39.7%. Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School scores 33.2%.
Within Clackamas County, the median household income is $103,517, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Clackamas County has 118 public schools and roughly 57,601 students.
The closest public school, Milwaukie High School, is about 0.2 miles from Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 3% from 2020-21, when Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School had 398 students, to 2024-25, when it had 408.
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Clackamas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
423,975
Census ACS
Median income
$103,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
118
57,601 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Clackamas SD 12
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Clackamas High SchoolHigh · 1,280 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Rock Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
Other schools in Milwaukie
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
- Alder Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Rowe Middle SchoolMiddle · 747 students
- Whitcomb Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Ardenwald Elementary SchoolElementary · 396 students
Nearby schools
- Milwaukie High School0.2 mi · 874
- Milwaukie Academy of the Arts0.2 mi · 281
- Rowe Middle School0.7 mi · 747
- Cascade Heights Public Charter School1.0 mi · 228
- Riverdale Grade School1.1 mi · 406
- Ardenwald Elementary School1.2 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Milwaukie El Puente Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School?
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School enrolls approximately 408 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School serve?
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School have?
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School?
Student demographics at Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School are roughly 40% White, 49% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School in?
Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School is part of North Clackamas SD 12.
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