St Helens Arthur Academy

St Helens Arthur Academy operates as a tight-knit primary school in St Helens, Oregon, overseen by St Helens SD 502. Current enrollment sits at 160 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 321.

St Helens SD 502 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,856 students; St Helens Arthur Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, St Helens Arthur Academy shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, St Helens Arthur Academy lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at St Helens Arthur Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Columbia County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), St Helens Arthur Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Columbia County indicate median household earnings sit near $87,458, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. St Helens Arthur Academy is one of 23 public schools in Columbia County (combined enrollment of about 6,932 students).

Nearest neighbor: McBride Elementary School, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around St Helens Arthur Academy. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), St Helens Arthur Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 23.8%.

St Helens Arthur Academy operates from an outlying location. St Helens Arthur Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. St Helens Arthur Academy's enrollment has ticked down 29% since 2018, when it stood at 226 (now 160). White enrollment moved from 91% to 80% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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