Parkside Elementary

Parkside Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Grants Pass, Oregon, operated by Grants Pass SD 7. The school hosts 361 students in grades K through 5.

Within Grants Pass SD 7, which oversees 11 schools and 5,562 students, Parkside Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Parkside Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Josephine County (around 84%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parkside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 28.1%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Josephine County indicate median household income runs about $60,098, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Parkside Elementary is one of 28 public schools in Josephine County (combined enrollment of about 9,944 students).

Nearest neighbor: South Middle School, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkside Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parkside Elementary has shrank 18%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 361 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 81% to 75%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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