Wheatley School

Wheatley School is a combined-grade school of rural-scale scale in Portland, Oregon, part of Multnomah ESD, enrolling 44 students in grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 89% smaller than the state mean of about 384.

Multnomah ESD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 315 students; Wheatley School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wheatley School shows that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 20% Black, 18% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.5:1 average. Roughly 105% of students at Wheatley School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Multnomah County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Wheatley School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

The closest other public school is Margaret Scott Elementary School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Wheatley School operates from a metropolitan location.

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