Tom McCall Upper Elementary

Tom McCall Upper Elementary is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in Forest Grove, Oregon, overseen by Forest Grove SD 15, works with 673 students in grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 494 students per school, that is 36% bigger than typical.

Forest Grove SD 15 runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,692 students. Tom McCall Upper Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Tom McCall Upper Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder breaks down as 38% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Washington County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Tom McCall Upper Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 21.5%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washington County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Tom McCall Upper Elementary is one of 136 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students).

Harvey Clarke Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 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), Tom McCall Upper Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tom McCall Upper Elementary has declined 13%, going from 775 students in 2018 to 673 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 43% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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