Windy River Elementary School

Located at 500 Tatone St, in Boardman, Oregon, Windy River Elementary School is a compact junior high that educates 241 students (grades 4 through 6), operated by Morrow SD 1. Enrollment runs roughly 51% leaner than the state mean of about 494.

Across the 9 schools in Morrow SD 1 (2,234 students total), Windy River Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Windy River Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Windy River Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Windy River Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Windy River Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.3%; Windy River Elementary School posts 15.3%, -21.0 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Morrow County put the typical household earns roughly $75,448 per year, roughly 10% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Windy River Elementary School is one of 10 public schools in Morrow County (combined enrollment of about 2,347 students).

Sam Boardman Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Windy River Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 250 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 81% to 76%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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