Pringle Elementary School

Pringle Elementary School operates as a big elementary campus in Salem, Oregon, one of the schools within Salem-Keizer SD 24J. Current enrollment sits at 488 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Pringle Elementary School sits 52% bigger than that benchmark.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J runs 65 schools in total, collectively educating 37,776 students. Pringle Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pringle Elementary School records that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 27% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 8% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Pringle Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.8:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Pringle Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $77,351, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), Pringle Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lee Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pringle Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 33.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pringle Elementary School has edged down 19%, going from 600 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 67% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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