NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools OR

Best-Resourced Schools in Scappoose, OR

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5 public K-12 schools in Scappoose from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
1,864
Students
33.2/100
Avg Resource Index
21:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Scappoose has more public-school enrollment than 10% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Scappoose High School enrolls 38.0% of Scappoose's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Scappoose's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Scappoose lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 50 to 709 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

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Scappoose High School accounts for 38.0% of all Scappoose public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Scappoose-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Scappoose school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Scappoose school enrollment ranges from 50 students (lowest) to 709 students (highest), a spread of 659 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Scappoose operates one school district — a single-district system

Scappoose's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Scappoose student-teacher ratio is 21.0:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Otto Petersen Elementary School 36
2. Scappoose Middle School 36
3. Scappoose Online Academy 35
4. Scappoose High School 34
5. Grant Watts Elementary School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Scappoose

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Otto Petersen Elementary School 43.0/100
  2. 2 Scappoose High School 37.1/100
  3. 3 Grant Watts Elementary School 36.9/100
  4. 4 Scappoose Middle School 36.9/100
  5. 5 Scappoose Online Academy 25.0/100

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Which Scappoose school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Otto Petersen Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Scappoose schools in this federal-data comparison at 36/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Scappoose, OR? ▼

Scappoose has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,864 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.