The Community Roots School

The Community Roots School operates as an one-room-style elementary-level community in Silverton, Oregon, run under Silver Falls SD 4J. Current enrollment sits at 99 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 69% below the state mean of about 321.

Within Silver Falls SD 4J, which oversees 13 schools and 3,651 students, The Community Roots School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, The Community Roots School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, The Community Roots School reports 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting The Community Roots School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, census data for Marion County shows median household income runs about $77,351, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), The Community Roots School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Robert Frost Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Community Roots School.

The school occupies a small-town site. The Community Roots School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 120 students in 2018 compared to 99 in 2025.

On allk12, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.