Oak Elementary School

Oak Elementary School is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Albany, Oregon, run under Greater Albany Public SD 8J, with 273 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Oak Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment; the rest looks like 26% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.7%; this one delivers 36.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Linn County put median household earnings sit near $76,329, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Linn County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,916 students), Oak Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

South Albany High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Oak Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 23.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Oak Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 334 (now 273). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 82% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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