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If you could change one rule at West Park Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
408
Elementary
DISTRICT 381 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HERMISTON SD 8·NCES 410630001095
West Park Elementary School
555 SW 7th St, Hermiston, OR 97838 · (541) 667-6800 · Umatilla County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL408 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Oregon public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.6:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
374 students
DISTRICT 92% · STATE 76%
Community
1
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 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
38.6%
OR avg 43.0% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
OR avg 31.8% . +3.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.5% | 34.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.0%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
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 West Park Elementary School
West Park Elementary School's state test result (29.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Park Elementary School this school | 408 | 91.7% | 29.7% |
| Rocky Heights Elementary School Hermiston | 442 | 92.8% | 27.4% |
| Grant Community School Salem | 444 | 89.0% | 28.5% |
| Nyssa Elementary School Nyssa | 502 | 90.4% | 28.9% |
| Kennedy Elementary School Keizer | 358 | 90.8% | 17.2% |
| Independence Elementary School Independence | 425 | 93.2% | 16.5% |
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 West Park Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Umatilla County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #367 of 591 | #8 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #262 of 646 ▲ 32 | #6 of 15 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #374 of 646 ▲ 46 | #7 of 15 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 408 | #187 of 710 | #6 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #97 of 587 | #7 of 13 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.7% | #376 of 587 | #10 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.7% | #128 of 645 | #7 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.2% | #89 of 493 | #4 of 11 |
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
408
-101 (-20%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 512
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 408 | 28 | 14.6:1 | 92% (374) |
| 2023-24 | 444 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 67% (298) |
| 2022-23 | 447 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 67% (301) |
| 2020-21 | 509 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 74% (376) |
| 2017-18 | 576 | 33 | 17.4:1 | 83% (478) |
| 2015-16 | 509 | 30 | 17.0:1 | 84% (427) |
| 2010-11 | 496 | 25 | 19.8:1 | 74% (369) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 29 | 17.5:1 | 51% (260) |
| 1990-91 | 512 | 26 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West Park Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (576 to 408); teachers down 15% (33 to 28).
About West Park Elementary School
West Park Elementary School is an elementary school in Hermiston, Oregon, and it is part of Hermiston SD 8. The school enrolls 408 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Oregon enroll around 321, and this school is 27% larger than that mark.
Hermiston SD 8 has 9 schools and 5,320 students, and West Park Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at West Park Elementary School is Hispanic: 70%. Other groups include 26% White and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 30% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, West Park Elementary School scores 45%.
West Park Elementary School reported 28 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.6:1. The school's 14.6:1 compares with an average of 16.5:1 for elementary schools in Oregon. Roughly 92% of students at West Park Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, West Park Elementary School lands at C+, ahead of 44% of Oregon public elementary schools.
West Park Elementary School is 2.7 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (29.7% versus 27.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Oregon.
In the surrounding county, Umatilla County, the median household earns about $67,728 a year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting West Park Elementary School, Umatilla County has 35 public schools.
West Park Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Hermiston High School, about 0.3 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. West Park Elementary School ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 29.7% against a local average of 34.5%.
The federal government classifies West Park Elementary School's location as Town: Distant.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 20% decline, from 509 to 408.
The West Park Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Umatilla County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
79,940
Census ACS
Median income
$67,728
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
13,143 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hermiston SD 8
- Hermiston High SchoolHigh · 1,705 students
- Armand Larive Middle SchoolMiddle · 722 students
- Sandstone Middle SchoolMiddle · 609 students
- Rocky Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 442 students
- Loma Vista ElementaryElementary · 397 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
Other schools in Hermiston
- Hermiston High SchoolHigh · 1,705 students
- Armand Larive Middle SchoolMiddle · 722 students
- Sandstone Middle SchoolMiddle · 609 students
- Rocky Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 442 students
- Loma Vista ElementaryElementary · 397 students
- Sunset Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
Other West Park Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named West Park Elementary. West Park Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 7.
- West Park Elementary SchoolKansas City, KS · 534 students
- West Park ElementaryNapa, CA · 296 students
- West Park ElementaryFresno, CA · 286 students
- WEST PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMOSCOW, ID · 240 students
- WEST PARK ELEMENTARYCOLUMBUS, NE · 215 students
Nearby schools
- Hermiston High School0.3 mi · 1,705
- Rocky Heights Elementary School0.5 mi · 442
- Desert View Elementary School0.5 mi · 351
- Sunset Elementary School0.7 mi · 378
- Armand Larive Middle School0.8 mi · 722
- Highland Hills Elementary School1.4 mi · 308
Frequently asked questions
About West Park Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at West Park Elementary School?
West Park Elementary School enrolls approximately 408 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does West Park Elementary School serve?
West Park Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at West Park Elementary School?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at West Park Elementary School.
How diverse is West Park Elementary School?
West Park Elementary School reports a student body of 26% White, 70% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is West Park Elementary School in?
West Park Elementary School is part of Hermiston SD 8.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.