W Verne McKinney Elementary School

W Verne McKinney Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized primary schools in Hillsboro, Oregon, run under Hillsboro SD 1J, with 395 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Across the 37 schools in Hillsboro SD 1J (18,465 students total), W Verne McKinney Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, W Verne McKinney Elementary School lists that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 31% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 70% 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 above Washington County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W Verne McKinney Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household earnings sit near $107,772, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), W Verne McKinney Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Hillsboro Online Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W Verne McKinney Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), W Verne McKinney Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 461 students in 2018 compared to 395 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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