West Park Elementary School

West Park Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Hermiston, Oregon, one of the schools within Hermiston SD 8, works with 408 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so West Park Elementary School sits 27% bigger than that benchmark.

Hermiston SD 8 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,320 students; West Park Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, West Park Elementary School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. Other groups include 26% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Umatilla County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, West Park Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Park Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.0%; this one delivers 29.7%.

In the surrounding community, Umatilla County reports that median household income runs about $67,728, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Umatilla County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,143 students), of which West Park Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hermiston High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, West Park Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Park Elementary School has declined 29%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 34% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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