Scott Elementary School

Scott Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school in Salem, Oregon, one of the schools within Salem-Keizer SD 24J. The school hosts 464 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Scott Elementary School sits 45% above that benchmark.

Across the 65 schools in Salem-Keizer SD 24J (37,776 students total), Scott Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Scott Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% White, 7% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Scott Elementary School logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Scott Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.2%, the actual is 13.2%, a residual of -15.0 points.

In the area at large, Marion County reports that the typical household earns roughly $77,351 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Scott Elementary School is one.

Cesar E Chavez Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Scott Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Scott Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 14.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 604 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 23% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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