Riley Creek Elementary School

Riley Creek Elementary School is a primary school of intimate scale in Gold Beach, Oregon, one of the schools within Central Curry SD 1, works with 212 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Riley Creek Elementary School sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Central Curry SD 1 (400 students total), Riley Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riley Creek Elementary School reports that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Riley Creek Elementary School logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.0:1. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Riley Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.2%; this one delivers 27.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Curry County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,244 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Curry County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,913 students), of which Riley Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gold Beach Jr/Sr High School, around 0.4 miles off. On composite proficiency, Riley Creek Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Riley Creek Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 308 (now 212). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 7% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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