Enrollment
365
Elementary
DISTRICT 371 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALEM-KEIZER SD 24J·NCES 411082000809
Washington Elementary School
3165 Lansing Ave NE, Salem, OR 97303 · (503) 399-3193 · Marion County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL365 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Oregon public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
18.3:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.4:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
324 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 76%
Community
0
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 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
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OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
11.4%
OR avg 43.0% . -3.9pp since 2023
Math
10.0%
OR avg 31.8% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 11.4% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 15.3% | 11.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
10.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.1%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 11% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 28% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Washington Elementary School
Washington Elementary School's state test result (10.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Elementary School this school | 365 | 88.8% | 10.8% |
| Hoover Elementary School Salem | 402 | 88.3% | 18.1% |
| Hallman Elementary School Salem | 339 | 88.8% | 9.5% |
| Lamb Elementary School Salem | 436 | 90.4% | 13.3% |
| Four Corners Elementary School Salem | 362 | 87.8% | 10.3% |
| Sunset Elementary School Hermiston | 378 | 92.1% | 25.1% |
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 Washington Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.8% | #582 of 591 | #52 of 58 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #630 of 646 ▼ 5 | #55 of 62 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.4% | #643 of 646 ▼ 11 | #60 of 62 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 365 | #280 of 710 | #28 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #422 of 587 | #23 of 54 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.1% | #400 of 587 | #40 of 54 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.8% | #169 of 645 | #24 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.3% | #369 of 493 | #33 of 47 |
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
365
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 24.7:1
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 | 365 | 19.9 | 18.3:1 | 89% (324) |
| 2023-24 | 363 | 22.8 | 15.9:1 | 67% (243) |
| 2022-23 | 371 | 20.6 | 18.0:1 | 60% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 370 | 15 | 24.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 416 | 19.9 | 20.9:1 | 91% (377) |
| 2015-16 | 414 | 22 | 18.8:1 | 91% (375) |
| 2010-11 | 398 | 20 | 19.9:1 | 82% (326) |
| 2000-01 | 519 | 30 | 17.3:1 | 99% (516) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 23 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Washington Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (416 to 365); teachers unchanged (19.9 to 19.9).
About Washington Elementary School
Washington Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Salem, Oregon. The school has 365 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Salem-Keizer SD 24J enrolls 37,776 students in 65 schools, including Washington Elementary School.
The student body at Washington Elementary School is 74% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 12% White, 10% Pacific Islander, and 3% multiracial. Marion County's residents are about 29% Hispanic, 45 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
Washington Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1, with 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Oregon average 16.5:1. The school has 89% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Oregon public elementary schools, Washington Elementary School outscored 1%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Washington Elementary School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 17.3 points (10.8% versus 28.1%), a bottom-10% result in Oregon on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Marion County area, the median household earns about $77,351 a year, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Washington Elementary School shares Marion County with 110 other public schools.
About 0.2 miles separate Washington Elementary School from the closest public school, Waldo Middle School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 26.6%; Washington Elementary School's is 10.8%, ranking 6th of 7.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 370 in 2020-21 and 365 in 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 24.7:1 to 18.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,244
Census ACS
Median income
$77,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
53,799 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salem-Keizer SD 24J
- McKay High SchoolHigh · 2,380 students
- South Salem High SchoolHigh · 2,195 students
- North Salem High SchoolHigh · 2,107 students
- McNary High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Sprague High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- West Salem High SchoolHigh · 1,606 students
Other schools in Salem
- McKay High SchoolHigh · 2,380 students
- South Salem High SchoolHigh · 2,195 students
- North Salem High SchoolHigh · 2,107 students
- Sprague High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- West Salem High SchoolHigh · 1,606 students
- Stephens Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,014 students
Other Washington Elementary schools
155 other US public schools in 28 states are named Washington Elementary. Washington Elementary School is the 76th largest of the 156.
- Washington Elementary SchoolWoodburn, OR · 429 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolPendleton, OR · 420 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolMedford, OR · 221 students
- Washington ElementaryRiverside, CA · 818 students
- Washington ElementaryRedondo Beach, CA · 776 students
Nearby schools
- Waldo Middle School0.2 mi · 997
- Hallman Elementary School0.9 mi · 339
- McKay High School1.0 mi · 2,380
- Early College High School1.1 mi · 193
- Eagle Charter School1.2 mi · 150
- Jane Goodall Environmental Middle Charter School1.2 mi · 95
Frequently asked questions
About Washington Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Washington Elementary School?
Washington Elementary School enrolls approximately 365 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Washington Elementary School serve?
Washington Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Washington Elementary School have?
Washington Elementary School employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Washington Elementary School?
At Washington Elementary School, the student body is approximately 12% White, 74% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Washington Elementary School public or private?
Washington Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Salem-Keizer SD 24J.
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