Sue Buel Elementary

Set in McMinnville, Oregon, Sue Buel Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school, run under McMinnville SD 40. It instructs 398 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Sue Buel Elementary sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in McMinnville SD 40 (6,293 students total), Sue Buel Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Sue Buel Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 45% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Yamhill County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Sue Buel Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sue Buel Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yamhill County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,063 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Yamhill County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,724 students), Sue Buel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Willamette Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sue Buel Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Sue Buel Elementary's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 467 (now 398). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 50% to 45%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.