The Ivy School

The Ivy School, an average-sized primary school in Portland, Oregon, overseen by Oregon Department of Education, instructs 273 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.

Oregon Department of Education comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,074 students; The Ivy School is among them.

Looking at the student body, The Ivy School shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 13% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, 6% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The Ivy School records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting The Ivy School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at The Ivy School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Multnomah County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), The Ivy School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.9%; this one delivers 48.9%.

In the area at large, Multnomah County reports that median household income runs about $88,766, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Multnomah County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), The Ivy School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Beach Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, The Ivy School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site. The Ivy School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 265 students in 2018 compared to 273 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.