Newby Elementary School

Newby Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in McMinnville, Oregon, one of the schools within McMinnville SD 40. Current enrollment sits at 443 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 38% above the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Newby Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by McMinnville SD 40, a district that instructs 6,293 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Newby Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Yamhill County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Newby Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.8%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yamhill County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,063 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Yamhill County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,724 students), of which Newby Elementary School is one.

Duniway Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Newby Elementary School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 38.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 523 students in 2018 compared to 443 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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