Quatama Elementary School

Set in Hillsboro, Oregon, Quatama Elementary School is an expansive K-5 school, overseen by Hillsboro SD 1J. It works with 483 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 321.

Hillsboro SD 1J runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 18,465 students. Quatama Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Quatama Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 34% White, 18% Asian, 9% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Washington County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Quatama Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household earnings sit near $107,772, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Washington County runs 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), of which Quatama Elementary School is one.

Orenco Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Quatama Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Quatama Elementary School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 478 (now 483). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 46% to 34%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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