West Union Elementary School

West Union Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in Hillsboro, Oregon, operated by Hillsboro SD 1J, with 311 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Hillsboro SD 1J, which oversees 37 schools and 18,465 students, West Union Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, West Union Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 37% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Washington County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Union Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

In the surrounding community, Washington County reports that the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. West Union Elementary School is one of 136 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students).

Liberty High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Union Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 404 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 23% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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