Welches Elementary School

Located at 24901 E Salmon River Rd, in Welches, Oregon, Welches Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus that educates 172 students (grades K through 5), run under Oregon Trail SD 46. Compared to the state average of about 321 students per school, that is 46% below typical.

Across the 10 schools in Oregon Trail SD 46 (4,202 students total), Welches Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Welches Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Clackamas County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Welches Elementary School has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Clackamas County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,517 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Clackamas County's 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), Welches Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Welches Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 209 students in 2018 compared to 172 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 81% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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