North Albany Elementary School

North Albany Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Albany, Oregon, part of Greater Albany Public SD 8J. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades K through 5.

Greater Albany Public SD 8J runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,771 students. North Albany Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, North Albany Elementary School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Benton County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, North Albany Elementary School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Benton County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Albany Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 54.6%, a residual of +21.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Benton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,702 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. North Albany Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 9,268 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Albany Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around North Albany Elementary School. On composite proficiency, North Albany Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at North Albany Elementary School has expanded 9%, going from 268 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 4% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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