South Columbia Family School

Set in Warren, Oregon, South Columbia Family School is a very small elementary-level community, overseen by Scappoose SD 1J. It educates 66 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 79% below the state mean of about 321.

Within Scappoose SD 1J, which oversees 8 schools and 2,251 students, South Columbia Family School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, South Columbia Family School logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Columbia County) records that median household earnings sit near $87,458, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Columbia County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,932 students), of which South Columbia Family School is one.

Warren Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Columbia Family School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. South Columbia Family School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Columbia Family School has remained close to its prior level, going from 67 students in 2018 to 66 in 2025. The White share of enrollment climbed from 81% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 28.3:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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