Oak Heights Elementary School

Located at 605 Elm St, in Sweet Home, Oregon, Oak Heights Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school that hosts 303 students (grades K through 6), run under Sweet Home SD 55.

Across the 7 schools in Sweet Home SD 55 (2,249 students total), Oak Heights Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Oak Heights Elementary School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. Compared to Linn County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Oak Heights Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Oak Heights Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 27.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Linn County put median household income runs about $76,329, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Linn County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,916 students), Oak Heights Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Sweet Home High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Heights Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 33.0%.

Oak Heights Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 304 students in 2018 compared to 303 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 88% to 81%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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