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What's one thing Sue Buel Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
398
Elementary
DISTRICT 443 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCMINNVILLE SD 40·NCES 410801001752
Sue Buel Elementary
1985 SE Davis St, McMinnville, OR 97128 · (503) 565-5500 · Yamhill County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL398 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of Oregon public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
333 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
32.4%
OR avg 43.0% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
28.4%
OR avg 31.8% . +1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.4% | 28.4% |
| 2023-24 | 34.7% | 26.9% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.1%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sue Buel Elementary
Sue Buel Elementary's state test result (26.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sue Buel Elementary this school | 398 | 83.7% | 26.6% |
| Newby Elementary School McMinnville | 443 | 81.9% | 32.6% |
| Willamette Elementary School McMinnville | 443 | 79.9% | 31.9% |
| Oak Grove Elementary School Medford | 398 | 87.4% | 22.1% |
| Sunrise Elementary School Albany | 324 | 80.6% | 16.7% |
| Cummings Elementary School Keizer | 397 | 88.9% | 18.1% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sue Buel Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Yamhill County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #426 of 591 | #14 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #398 of 646 ▲ 26 | #14 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #465 of 646 ▼ 47 | #14 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 398 | #205 of 710 | #7 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #181 of 587 | #5 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #222 of 587 | #3 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.7% | #231 of 645 | #4 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #333 of 493 | #12 of 16 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
398
0 (0%) vs 2020
-22% since 2010-11, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 398 | 25.2 | 15.8:1 | 84% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 421 | 26 | 16.2:1 | 58% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 416 | 30.3 | 13.7:1 | 69% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 27 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 467 | 28.8 | 16.2:1 | 81% (378) |
| 2015-16 | 507 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 81% (411) |
| 2010-11 | 510 | 28 | 18.2:1 | 82% (418) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sue Buel Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (467 to 398); teachers down 12% (28.8 to 25.2).
About Sue Buel Elementary
Sue Buel Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in McMinnville, Oregon, administered by McMinnville SD 40. The school's 398 students are in kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Oregon average about 321 students each.
The district, McMinnville SD 40, has 6,293 students enrolled across 9 schools.
The most common group at Sue Buel Elementary is White students, at 48%. The school is also 45% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 77%. The school's diversity index is 56%, meaning two students picked at random have a 56% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Sue Buel Elementary employs 25.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.8:1. That is 0.7 students per teacher below the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 84% in 2024-25.
Sue Buel Elementary is graded C by allk12, scoring above 29% of Oregon public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Sue Buel Elementary is -3.5 points: 26.6% actual, 30.1% predicted.
Yamhill County census figures show that the median household income is $90,063, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 34 public schools in Yamhill County, enrolling about 14,724 students in all.
The shortest distance from Sue Buel Elementary to another public school is about 1.1 miles, to Willamette Elementary School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Sue Buel Elementary ranks 9th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Sue Buel Elementary in the Town: Distant locale, which means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (398) and 2024-25 (398). The school's ratio rose from 14.7:1 to 15.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Yamhill County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
108,734
Census ACS
Median income
$90,063
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
14,724 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in McMinnville SD 40
- McMinnville High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Duniway Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Patton Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Grandhaven Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Newby Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
Other schools in McMinnville
- McMinnville High SchoolHigh · 2,228 students
- Duniway Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Patton Middle SchoolMiddle · 646 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Grandhaven Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- Newby Elementary SchoolElementary · 443 students
Nearby schools
- Willamette Elementary School1.1 mi · 443
- Newby Elementary School1.2 mi · 443
- Duniway Middle School1.4 mi · 761
- Memorial Elementary School1.7 mi · 557
- McMinnville High School1.7 mi · 2,228
- Patton Middle School2.0 mi · 646
Frequently asked questions
About Sue Buel ElementaryHow large is Sue Buel Elementary?
Sue Buel Elementary enrolls approximately 398 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Sue Buel Elementary serve?
Sue Buel Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Sue Buel Elementary?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Sue Buel Elementary.
How diverse is Sue Buel Elementary?
Sue Buel Elementary reports a student body of 48% White, 45% Hispanic, 0% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Sue Buel Elementary in?
Sue Buel Elementary is part of McMinnville SD 40.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.