Richmond Elementary School

Richmond Elementary School is one of the modestly sized primary schools in Salem, Oregon, run under Salem-Keizer SD 24J, with 242 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Richmond Elementary School sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 37,776 students; Richmond Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Richmond Elementary School logs that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 33% White, 6% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Richmond Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Richmond Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 28.1%; Richmond Elementary School posts 11.4%, -16.7 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Marion County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), of which Richmond Elementary School is one.

Bush Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Richmond Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Richmond Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

Richmond Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Richmond Elementary School has ticked down 32%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 242 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 33% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.