Enrollment
306
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTLAND SD 1J·NCES 411004000952
Woodlawn Elementary School
7200 NE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97211 · (503) 916-6282 · Multnomah County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL306 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Oregon public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
128 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 76%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
51.9%
OR avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
Math
52.6%
OR avg 31.8% . +5.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.9% | 52.6% |
| 2023-24 | 48.6% | 47.3% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Woodlawn Elementary School
Woodlawn Elementary School's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodlawn Elementary School this school | 306 | 41.8% | 43.9% |
| Sabin Elementary School Portland | 293 | 43.3% | 56.8% |
| Vernon Elementary School Portland | 564 | 41.7% | 49.6% |
| Peninsula Elementary School Portland | 235 | 41.7% | 40.4% |
| Vestal Elementary School Portland | 257 | 45.1% | 30.5% |
| Beach Elementary School Portland | 295 | 42.0% | 48.6% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Woodlawn Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Multnomah County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #176 of 591 | #38 of 78 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #118 of 646 ▲ 45 | #36 of 109 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #194 of 646 ▲ 28 | #45 of 109 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 306 | #396 of 710 | #71 of 110 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #133 of 587 | #34 of 101 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.3% | #31 of 587 | #25 of 101 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.8% | #600 of 645 | #77 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.1% | #443 of 493 | #82 of 89 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
306
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 533
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 306 | 20.3 | 15.1:1 | 42% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 18.5 | 16.2:1 | 64% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 287 | 18.9 | 15.2:1 | 65% (186) |
| 2020-21 | 318 | 19 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 326 | 23.5 | 13.9:1 | 79% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 406 | 33 | 12.3:1 | 84% (342) |
| 2010-11 | 449 | 29 | 15.5:1 | 80% (360) |
| 2000-01 | 547 | 30 | 18.2:1 | 79% (432) |
| 1990-91 | 533 | 27 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodlawn Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (326 to 306); teachers down 14% (23.5 to 20.3).
About Woodlawn Elementary School
Woodlawn Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Portland, Oregon. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 306 students.
A total of 86 schools make up Portland SD 1J, with 41,894 students enrolled.
No group is above 50% at Woodlawn Elementary School; the largest is White, at 35%. Other reported shares: 25% Black, 23% Hispanic, and 14% multiracial. Multnomah County's residents are about 68% White, 33 points above the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Woodlawn Elementary School scores 73%.
The school's 20.3 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1. Elementary schools in Oregon have an average ratio of 16.5:1. At Woodlawn Elementary School, 42% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Multnomah County averages 75%, higher than here.
Woodlawn Elementary School earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 57% of Oregon public elementary schools.
Woodlawn Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (43.9%) and its predicted rate (46.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Oregon schools.
Looking at the county, Multnomah County, the median household earns about $88,766 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Woodlawn Elementary School, Multnomah County has 169 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Woodlawn Elementary School is closest to Faubion Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Woodlawn Elementary School is 4th of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large).
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 306, from 318 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 16.7:1 to 15.1:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The discussion board for Woodlawn Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Multnomah County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
801,477
Census ACS
Median income
$88,766
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
81,096 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Portland SD 1J
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
Other schools in Portland
- David Douglas High SchoolHigh · 2,756 students
- Westview High SchoolHigh · 2,423 students
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
Other Woodlawn Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Woodlawn Elementary. Woodlawn Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 13.
- WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSEBRING, FL · 834 students
- Woodlawn ElementaryWoodlawn, TN · 708 students
- Woodlawn ElementaryBaton Rouge, LA · 658 students
- Woodlawn Elementary SchoolDanville, KY · 657 students
- Woodlawn Elementary SchoolWest Monroe, LA · 508 students
Nearby schools
- Faubion Elementary School0.9 mi · 585
- Vernon Elementary School1.0 mi · 564
- Rivercrest Academy1.1 mi · 12
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School1.2 mi · 312
- Jefferson High School1.3 mi · 456
- Ockley Green Middle School1.4 mi · 409
Frequently asked questions
About Woodlawn Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Woodlawn Elementary School?
Woodlawn Elementary School enrolls approximately 306 students in grades PK-05.
Is Woodlawn Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Woodlawn Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Woodlawn Elementary School?
Approximately 15.1:1 students per teacher at Woodlawn Elementary School.
How diverse is Woodlawn Elementary School?
Woodlawn Elementary School reports a student body of 35% White, 23% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Woodlawn Elementary School in?
Woodlawn Elementary School is part of Portland SD 1J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.