Rieke Elementary School

Rieke Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Portland, Oregon, operated by Portland SD 1J. Current enrollment sits at 279 students spanning grades K through 5.

Portland SD 1J comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 41,894 students; Rieke Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Rieke Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Rieke Elementary School lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at Rieke Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Multnomah County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rieke Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Oregon schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 46.4%; actual is 78.8%, +32.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Multnomah County shows median household earnings sit near $88,766, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), Rieke Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rieke Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rieke Elementary School has contracted 28%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 279 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 79% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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