Talent Elementary School

Located at 307 W Wagner Ave, in Talent, Oregon, Talent Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus that caters to 349 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Phoenix-Talent SD 4.

Across the 7 schools in Phoenix-Talent SD 4 (2,215 students total), Talent Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Talent Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Talent Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Talent Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 84%.

With demographic context factored in, Talent Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.0%.

Around the school, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,999 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Jackson County runs 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), of which Talent Elementary School is one.

Talent Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Talent Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Talent Elementary School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Talent Elementary School has edged down 26%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 65% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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