Sunnyside Environmental School

Located at 3421 SE Salmon St, in Portland, Oregon, Sunnyside Environmental School is an average-sized primary school that teaches 461 students (grades K through 8), run under Portland SD 1J. That puts it 44% above the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Portland SD 1J comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 41,894 students; Sunnyside Environmental School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sunnyside Environmental School shows that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 14% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Multnomah County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Sunnyside Environmental School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 42% of students at Sunnyside Environmental School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sunnyside Environmental School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.4%; this one delivers 51.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Multnomah County) reports that median household income runs about $88,766, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), Sunnyside Environmental School is one campus in the mix.

Hosford Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sunnyside Environmental School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 604 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 69% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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