Marysville Elementary School

Portland, OR · Grades K–5

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

Neighborhood

Decoded Rank

All factors combined

3 stars

OR statewide rating — the rank below is this school's statewide position

Middle 40% decoded

#406 of 680

plausibly #236–578

Oregon schools

#207 · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro — Oregon side

Achievement Rank

Raw test performance

Middle 40% achievement

#386 of 680

Oregon schools

#226 · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro — Oregon side

places from achievement to Decoded Rank

Raw scores are modest, but students tend to gain ground relative to peers while enrolled.

Data confidence:Medium340 students tested 9 years93% participation

Confidence is computed from sample size, year coverage, and participation rate. Higher confidence means the rank shift is stable across years and not driven by a single small cohort.

  • Tested students: total students with valid scores across all reported years.
  • Years of data: number of school years included. More years smooths year-to-year noise.
  • Participation: share of enrolled students who took the assessment. Low participation can bias scores.

What's driving this rank

Decoded Rank: #406 of 680

in Oregon schools

Each component below is scored on a 0–100 within-metro scale. A qualitative band summarizes where the school lands.

  • Below averagePerforms above what its context predictsCounts for 39% of the rank

    After accounting for income and demographics, does this school beat what the data would predict?

  • Above averageStudents gain ground year over yearCounts for 33% of the rank

    Are kids at this school learning faster than typical for the metro?

  • LowEquity within the schoolCounts for 17% of the rank

    Are students clustered at similar levels, or split between top and bottom?

  • StrongMost students were testedCounts for 11% of the rank

    Was the rank computed against a representative share of the school's students?

Show the numbersFor the methodology-curious

Each component is converted to a 0–100 within-metro percentile (100 = top of the metro). "Contribution" is the percentile-points the component adds to (or subtracts from) the metro median before the schools are re-ranked into the composite.

Per-component contributions to this school's Decoded Rank composite. Weight is the share each component carries; percentile is the school's within-metro score on that component.
ComponentWeightPercentileContribution
Performs above what its context predicts 39%30-8.0
Students gain ground year over year 33%77+9.0
Equity within the school 17%19-5.1
Most students were tested 11%93+4.8

How the Decoded Rank composite is computed

Why trust this?
  • Public data sources
  • Context-adjusted model
  • Confidence shown
  • Methodology published

This score uses state assessment data, NCES enrollment data, and Census ACS 5-year neighborhood data. The Decoded Rank adjusts for school context — student demographics, ELL/SPED service rates, and the socioeconomic profile of the surrounding tract — and shows how the school performs relative to expectation, not in absolute terms.

SchoolDecoder is one signal, not a verdict. Decoded Rank is a context-adjusted residual, not a causal claim about teaching quality. See full methodology →

Strongest Subjects (Decoded)

Decoded rank first; achievement rank in parentheses. Sorted by decoded rank, best first. Science is shown for reference only and is not part of any rank, tier, or composite.

  1. Science

    2025 proficiency19%meeting standard

    Tested gradeGrade 5

    60 tested

    202230%202325%202430.9%202519%

    Shown for reference only — science is not part of any rank.

All Rankings

How this school ranks across the metro, state, and among demographic peers.

ScopeAchievementDecodedShift
OR (680 schools)#386#406
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA (345 schools)#226#207
Among similar schools (6 peers)#5#6

Resource context

School inputs, not ranking points

These fields describe the school and surrounding neighborhood. They help readers interpret the page, but this is not a dollar-by-dollar or ratio-by-ratio scorecard and the fields here are not components of the Decoded Rank.

Enrollment
318
Free/reduced-price lunch
100.0%
Student-teacher ratio
14.5:1
Locale
City, large
School type
Regular public school
Enrollment model
Neighborhood attendance area
Neighborhood median income
$103,371ACS tract proxy
Neighborhood poverty
7.7%ACS tract proxy
SES index
58.8
Assessment data year
2025
CCD year
2024
ACS vintage
2020-2024

Within Portland SD 1J: #49 of 70.Bottom-40% in district. View district

Performance Spread

How students are distributed across the four state-assessment proficiency levels — L1: below standard, L2: approaching, L3: meets (proficient), L4: exceeds. This describes the shape of results at the school, not their height.

Students at this school are broadly spread across proficiency levels.

  • Level 1 — Below standard43%
  • Level 2 — Approaching standard27%
  • Level 3 — Meets standard (proficient)15%
  • Level 4 — Exceeds standard16%

Performance Spread measures how evenly students are distributed across the L1..L4 proficiency ladder, treating the levels as an ordered scale (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4) and weighting each by its student share. A school where most students cluster at one level has a TIGHT spread; a school split between the bottom and top has a WIDE or BIMODAL spread. Bimodal fires only when BOTH tails are non-trivial AND the middle is relatively hollow (pct_L1 ≥ 15, pct_L4 ≥ 25, pct_L2 + pct_L3 ≤ 60). It describes shape — NOT how high the school's scores are. Methodology

Nearby Schools

Sorted by distance. Both rank columns shown so you can compare quickly.

SchoolRatingAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Arleta Elementary School#115#204High
Woodmere Elementary School#277#156High
Kellogg Middle School#174#107High
Lent Elementary School#154#30High
Kelly Elementary School#259#198High

Similar Schools

Schools with comparable demographics, income, and size. Both rank columns shown for direct comparison.

SchoolRatingAchievementDecodedShiftStoryConfidence
Buff Elementary School#18#16High
Grout Elementary School#100#70High
Talent Elementary School#7#3High
Dayton Grade School#233#40High
Mt Vernon Elementary School#34#41Medium

Historical Ranks

Year-by-year decoded and achievement ranks. Pandemic-affected years are excluded — we don't interpolate scores across the gap.

YearAchievementDecodedShift
2025#226#207
2024#252#282
2023#237#251

Note: assessment transitions (where a state changes its test) are footnoted on the methodology page; trends are not computed across breakpoints.

Trajectory

Not used in the Decoded Rank — shown for context only.

No clear trend

The year-to-year data is too variable to support a trend in either direction.

How this works: we fit a linear trend across the available years of Decoded percentile, then bucket the slope into a direction. Wide confidence intervals (uncertain trends) collapse to Holding steady. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Cohort Progression

Kids who started 3rd grade here in 2024 gained 16 proficiency points by 4th grade — gaining while the typical metro school declined.

Based on 24 cohorts across math + ELA.

Learning rate: +5.8 proficiency points/yr (95% CI 1.1 to 10.5)

Cohort 201520162017201820192022202320242025 Slope
ELA · started 8th in 2015
G8
274
—
ELA · started 7th in 2015
G7
240
G8
244
+4.0
ELA · started 6th in 2015
G6
254
G7
241
G8
268
+6.8
ELA · started 5th in 2015
G5
243
G6
262
G7
262
G8
246
+0.8
ELA · started 4th in 2015
G4
220
G5
246
G6
280
G7
263
G8
261
+9.8
ELA · started 3rd in 2015
G3
232
G4
233
G5
259
G6
234
G7
263
+6.1
ELA · started 3rd in 2016
G3
217
G4
210
G5
232
G6
210
+0.3
ELA · started 3rd in 2017
G3
216
G4
254
G5
265
+24.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2018
G3
183
G4
189
+5.2
ELA · started 3rd in 2019
G3
208
—
ELA · started 5th in 2022
G5
237
—
ELA · started 4th in 2022
G4
198
G5
208
+10.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2022
G3
190
G4
193
G5
207
+8.6
ELA · started 3rd in 2023
G3
185
G4
168
G5
205
+10.2
ELA · started 3rd in 2024
G3
184
G4
200
+16.1
ELA · started 3rd in 2025
G3
240
—
Math · started 8th in 2015
G8
217
—
Math · started 7th in 2015
G7
203
G8
219
+16.0
Math · started 6th in 2015
G6
200
G7
223
G8
224
+11.8
Math · started 5th in 2015
G5
206
G6
221
G7
242
G8
240
+12.4
Math · started 4th in 2015
G4
205
G5
218
G6
261
G7
253
G8
237
+9.8
Math · started 3rd in 2015
G3
205
G4
206
G5
222
G6
236
G7
260
+13.9
Math · started 3rd in 2016
G3
200
G4
183
G5
197
G6
170
-7.6
Math · started 3rd in 2017
G3
209
G4
241
G5
220
+5.6
Math · started 3rd in 2018
G3
192
G4
154
-37.3
Math · started 3rd in 2019
G3
177
—
Math · started 5th in 2022
G5
173
—
Math · started 4th in 2022
G4
177
G5
187
+10.2
Math · started 3rd in 2022
G3
205
G4
200
G5
209
+2.1
Math · started 3rd in 2023
G3
196
G4
175
G5
174
-10.7
Math · started 3rd in 2024
G3
200
G4
195
-5.3
Math · started 3rd in 2025
G3
220
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How this works: we follow each grade-cohort across years through the school (3rd graders in 2023 are 4th graders in 2024, etc.) and fit a linear slope on a 100–400 proficiency-points scale built from the state assessment's four levels (L1=1, L2=2, L3=3, L4=4, weighted by student share). This is the same construction Stanford SEDA uses (edopportunity.org/methods); it's not student-level tracking — we measure the school's cohort, not individuals. See the methodology page for thresholds.

Evidence & technical detailClick to expand

School Alpha

School Alpha is the residual between actual and expected performance once school context is held constant. It is a context-adjusted estimate, not a causal claim about teaching quality. Its reliability shows up on the page as the confidence label and the rank interval, not as a standalone statistic.

SES index components

SES method
Blended SES index (ACS + FRL)
SES index value
58.8
FRL %
100.0%
ELL %
20.0% · OR ODE At-A-Glance (Ever English Learners)
SPED %
22.0% · OR ODE At-A-Glance
Tract median income (ACS 5-year)
$103,371
Tract poverty rate
7.7%
Tract % bachelor's+
50.7%

What "Decoded Rank" means

Decoded Rank converts School Alpha — the context-adjusted residual — into a parent-facing rank within the metro pool. A higher Decoded Rank than Achievement Rank means the school's raw scores understate its performance once neighborhood and school context are held constant. The reverse means raw scores overstate it. The rank is one signal, not a verdict.

Data & sources

Assessment data
2024–25 school year
NCES CCD vintage
2024
Census ACS 5-year vintage
2020-2024
Last updated
September 4, 2026
Methodology version
0.14.0

Cross-state metro note: This metro spans state lines. Both states use Smarter Balanced assessments with a common scale for grades 3–8 ELA/math. Context-adjusted ranks are computed within each state's testing context, then aggregated across the metro.

Source files (3)

SchoolDecoder publishes context-adjusted residuals, not causal estimates. Decoded Rank is one signal — not a verdict on teaching quality. Read about limitations →