Weddle Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Keizer, Oregon, Weddle Elementary School educates 352 students from grades K through 5, operated by Salem-Keizer SD 24J.

Salem-Keizer SD 24J comprises 65 schools with combined enrollment of 37,776 students; Weddle Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Weddle Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Weddle Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Weddle Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 28.2%; actual is 10.8%, a gap of -17.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Marion County indicate median household income runs about $77,351, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marion County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), Weddle Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Claggett Creek Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Weddle Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.

Weddle Elementary School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 428 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 36% to 24%.

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