Public school / Primary
Bessie Coleman Elementary School
Corvallis, Oregon
- NCES ID
- 410348000040
- District
- Corvallis SD 509j
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bessie Coleman Elementary School is a public primary school in Corvallis, Oregon, run by Corvallis SD 509j. It enrols 345 students — the 59170th largest of 1,300 public schools in Oregon.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
345
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
19.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
21.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Corvallis SD 509j
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Corvallis High School1,284 students
- 2Crescent Valley High School931 students
- 3Linus Pauling Middle School768 students
- 4Cheldelin Middle School570 students
- 5Letitia Carson Elementary School390 students
- 6Adams Elementary School383 students
- 7Garfield Elementary School378 students
- 8Bessie Coleman Elementary School345 students
- Enrollment−5.1%
- Teachers−14.3%
- Students per teacher+9.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−66.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory