Myers Elementary School

Located at 2160 Jewel St NW, in Salem, Oregon, Myers Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that educates 342 students (grades K through 5), run under Salem-Keizer SD 24J.

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

On the student-mix side, Myers Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Myers Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Myers Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Polk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $85,118 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Myers Elementary School is one of 24 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 11,121 students).

The closest other public school is Chapman Hill Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Myers Elementary School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Myers Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Myers Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 36% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 342). Hispanic enrollment moved from 25% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.

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