Scotts Mills Elementary School

Scotts Mills Elementary School is one of the compact K-5 schools in Scotts Mills, Oregon, overseen by Silver Falls SD 4J, with 141 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 56% smaller than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Silver Falls SD 4J runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 3,651 students. Scotts Mills Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Scotts Mills Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school records 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Scotts Mills Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marion County (around 83%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Scotts Mills Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.8%; this one delivers 29.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Marion County reports that median household income runs about $77,351, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Scotts Mills Elementary School is one of 111 public schools in Marion County (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students).

Butte Creek Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Scotts Mills Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

Scotts Mills Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Scotts Mills Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 163 (now 141). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 8% to 4% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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