Willamette Elementary School

As a mid-sized elementary campus in McMinnville, Oregon, Willamette Elementary School instructs 443 students from grades K through 5, part of McMinnville SD 40. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Willamette Elementary School sits 38% larger than that benchmark.

McMinnville SD 40 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,293 students. Willamette Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Willamette Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 45% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Willamette Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at Willamette Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Willamette Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 31.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Yamhill County) logs that median household earnings sit near $90,063, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Yamhill County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,724 students), of which Willamette Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Newby Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willamette Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willamette Elementary School has shrank 9%, going from 486 students in 2018 to 443 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 36% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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