Turner Elementary School

Located at 7800 School Ave, in Turner, Oregon, Turner Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school that hosts 422 students (grades K through 5), operated by Cascade SD 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Turner Elementary School sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

Within Cascade SD 5, which oversees 6 schools and 2,731 students, Turner Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Turner Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest reads as 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Marion County's rate of about 83%.

After controlling for student poverty, Turner Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.9%; this one delivers 50.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Marion County put median household earnings sit near $77,351, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Marion County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), of which Turner Elementary School is one.

Cloverdale Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Turner Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Turner Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 36% since 2018, when it stood at 311 (now 422). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

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