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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH CLACKAMAS SD 12·NCES 410883001777
Verne A Duncan Elementary School
14898 SE Parklane Dr, Happy Valley, OR 97015 · (503) 353-3270 · Clackamas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Oregon public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
232 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
46.5%
OR avg 43.0% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
36.4%
OR avg 31.8% . -3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.5% | 36.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.1% | 40.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Verne A Duncan Elementary School
Verne A Duncan Elementary School's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verne A Duncan Elementary School this school | 400 | 58.0% | 39.0% |
| Bilquist Elementary School Milwaukie | 373 | 58.4% | 22.1% |
| Ardenwald Elementary School Milwaukie | 396 | 58.3% | 37.2% |
| Tualatin Elementary School Tualatin | 414 | 61.4% | 35.0% |
| Edward Byrom Elementary School Tualatin | 367 | 61.3% | 49.9% |
| Letitia Carson Elementary School Corvallis | 333 | 57.4% | 40.1% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Verne A Duncan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #232 of 591 | #32 of 63 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.4% | #283 of 646 ▼ 54 | #39 of 66 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #255 of 646 ▲ 59 | #37 of 66 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #201 of 710 | #29 of 67 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #386 of 587 | #37 of 62 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.8% | #137 of 587 | #13 of 62 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.0% | #502 of 645 | #38 of 64 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.9% | #84 of 493 | #8 of 43 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
400
-48 (-11%) vs 2020
-16% since 2010-11, when it was 476
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 18.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 400 | 22.4 | 17.8:1 | 58% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 390 | 20.5 | 19.0:1 | 39% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 21.2 | 19.2:1 | 32% (129) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 24 | 18.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 26.3 | 21.7:1 | 30% (171) |
| 2015-16 | 567 | 25 | 22.7:1 | 38% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 476 | 23 | 20.7:1 | 35% (168) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Verne A Duncan Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (571 to 400); teachers down 15% (26.3 to 22.4).
About Verne A Duncan Elementary School
Students in Happy Valley, Oregon, attend Verne A Duncan Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. Federal data show 400 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Oregon average about 321 students, which makes this school 25% above average.
The district, North Clackamas SD 12, operates 31 schools serving 16,837 students.
The student body at Verne A Duncan Elementary School is 56% White. After that, the student body is 23% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 4% Asian, and 2% Black. Among all residents of Clackamas County, the White share is about 79%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
Teacher count: 22.4 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 17.8:1. The gap from the 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon is 1.3 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 58%. That is 8 points above the 50% average for public schools in Clackamas County.
Verne A Duncan Elementary School earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 54% of Oregon public elementary schools.
Verne A Duncan Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 39.0%, compared with a predicted 40.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Oregon schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Clackamas County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $103,517, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 118 public schools in the county, enrolling about 57,601, Verne A Duncan Elementary School among them.
The closest school to Verne A Duncan Elementary School is Adrienne C. Nelson High School, located about 0.4 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Verne A Duncan Elementary School. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Verne A Duncan Elementary School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 48 students, from 448 to 400.
Verne A Duncan Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Clackamas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
423,975
Census ACS
Median income
$103,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
118
57,601 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Clackamas SD 12
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Clackamas High SchoolHigh · 1,280 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Rock Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
Other schools in Happy Valley
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Scouters Mountain ElementaryElementary · 568 students
- Happy Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 491 students
- Mount Scott Elementary SchoolElementary · 416 students
- Spring Mountain Elementary SchoolElementary · 350 students
Nearby schools
- Adrienne C. Nelson High School0.4 mi · 1,536
- Oregon Trail Elementary School1.2 mi · 455
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady Elementary1.3 mi · 506
- Scouters Mountain Elementary2.1 mi · 568
- Rock Creek Middle School2.1 mi · 889
- Sunnyside Elementary School2.3 mi · 402
Frequently asked questions
About Verne A Duncan Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Verne A Duncan Elementary School?
Verne A Duncan Elementary School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Verne A Duncan Elementary School serve?
Verne A Duncan Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Verne A Duncan Elementary School have?
Verne A Duncan Elementary School employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Verne A Duncan Elementary School?
Student demographics at Verne A Duncan Elementary School are roughly 56% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Verne A Duncan Elementary School public or private?
Verne A Duncan Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by North Clackamas SD 12.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.