Vose Elementary School

As a large primary school in Beaverton, Oregon, Vose Elementary School instructs 666 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Beaverton SD 48J. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Vose Elementary School sits 107% above that benchmark.

Beaverton SD 48J comprises 56 schools with combined enrollment of 37,479 students; Vose Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Vose Elementary School shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 21% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Washington County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vose Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 31.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Washington County runs 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), of which Vose Elementary School is one.

Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vose Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Vose Elementary School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Vose Elementary School has edged up 8%, going from 616 students in 2018 to 666 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 73% to 68% over that span.

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