Rock Creek Elementary School

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Portland, Oregon, Rock Creek Elementary School serves 398 students from grades K through 5, part of Beaverton SD 48J. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Beaverton SD 48J runs 56 schools in total, collectively educating 37,479 students. Rock Creek Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Rock Creek Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 21% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rock Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +16.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), Rock Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Westview High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rock Creek Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rock Creek Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 571 (now 398). White enrollment moved from 60% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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