Nyssa Elementary School

As an expansive K-5 school in Nyssa, Oregon, Nyssa Elementary School educates 502 students from grades K through 5, run under Nyssa SD 26. Enrollment runs roughly 56% bigger than the state mean of about 321.

Nyssa SD 26 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,115 students. Nyssa Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Nyssa Elementary School records that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 25% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Malheur County as a whole is about 34% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Nyssa Elementary School logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nyssa Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Malheur County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,519 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Malheur County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,566 students), Nyssa Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nyssa Virtual School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nyssa Elementary School has shrank 13%, going from 580 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 67% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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