Shaver Elementary School

Shaver Elementary School operates as a modestly sized primary school in Portland, Oregon, one of the schools within Parkrose SD 3. Current enrollment sits at 266 students spanning grades K through 5.

Parkrose SD 3 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,714 students; Shaver Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Shaver Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 29%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Black, 24% White, 11% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Shaver Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Shaver Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 130% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate median household income runs about $88,766, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Shaver Elementary School is one.

Parkrose Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shaver Elementary School.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shaver Elementary School has decreased 18%, going from 323 students in 2018 to 266 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 18% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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