Creston Elementary School vs Rose City Park

Creston Elementary School holds a 0.7-point overall rating advantage over Rose City Park — 9.6/10 versus 8.9/10 — and that gap widens considerably when zoomed out statewide. Creston Elementary School ranks #4 of 1226 schools in Oregon, placing it in the top 0.3% of all schools in the state. Rose City Park ranks #65 of 1226, which is genuinely strong — top 6% statewide — yet still 61 positions behind its crosstown counterpart just 3.1 miles away.

The academic and growth scores drive most of that separation. Creston Elementary School scores 9.8/10 on academics versus Rose City Park's 9.3/10 — a half-point difference that reflects meaningful distance in measured proficiency. The growth gap is steeper: Creston Elementary School posts a 9.7/10 growth score compared to Rose City Park's 8.6/10, an 1.1-point spread indicating that Creston students are advancing at a faster rate relative to their starting points, not just arriving already ahead.

Creston Elementary School serves 238 students against Rose City Park's 464 — nearly double the enrollment — and the student-teacher ratios are nearly identical at 15.9:1 and 16.0:1 respectively, meaning Creston's smaller absolute size doesn't translate into meaningfully smaller class sizes. The more notable demographic difference is in economic composition: 78% of Creston Elementary School students qualify for free or reduced lunch compared to 65% at Rose City Park. Creston's stronger academic and growth outcomes while serving a higher-poverty population makes its performance particularly significant.

Both Creston Elementary School and Rose City Park serve grades KG through 05 with no structural difference in grade span. The distinction is scale and trajectory: Rose City Park operates as a mid-sized neighborhood school with strong, stable performance, while Creston Elementary School functions as a high-achieving, smaller campus that consistently outperforms schools with more advantaged student populations — a rarer combination in Portland's elementary landscape.