St Paul Elementary School

St Paul Elementary School, a modestly sized K-5 school in St Paul, Oregon, overseen by St Paul SD 45, enrolls 150 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

St Paul SD 45 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 296 students. St Paul Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, St Paul Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 29% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 117% of students at St Paul Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marion County runs at roughly 83%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $77,351, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), St Paul Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is St Paul High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 63%: 92 students in 2018 compared to 150 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 53% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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