Monroe Grade School

Monroe Grade School operates as a tight-knit elementary school in Monroe, Oregon, part of Monroe SD 1J. Current enrollment sits at 235 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Monroe Grade School sits 27% below that benchmark.

Within Monroe SD 1J, which oversees 2 schools and 350 students, Monroe Grade School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Monroe Grade School logs that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Monroe Grade School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Monroe Grade School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.2%, the actual is 22.8%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Benton County put median household income runs about $77,702, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Benton County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,268 students), Monroe Grade School is one campus in the mix.

Monroe High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monroe Grade School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 31.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 235 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 72% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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