Nestucca K8

As an average-sized K-5 school in Cloverdale, Oregon, Nestucca K8 teaches 336 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Nestucca Valley SD 101J.

Nestucca K8 is one of 2 schools operated by Nestucca Valley SD 101J, a district that enrolls 498 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Nestucca K8 lists that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Nestucca K8 has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Nestucca K8 higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Nestucca K8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tillamook County (around 82%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nestucca K8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.2%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, Tillamook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,105 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Tillamook County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,220 students), of which Nestucca K8 is one.

Nestucca High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Nestucca K8 comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 40%: 240 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 70% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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