Irvington Elementary School vs Rose City Park

Irvington Elementary School edges Rose City Park by 0.5 points in overall rating — 9.4/10 versus 8.9/10 — a gap that reflects meaningfully different trajectories within the same city. In Oregon state rankings, Irvington Elementary School sits at #15 of 1,226 schools, while Rose City Park ranks #65 of 1,226. Both are strong performers in the top 6% statewide, but the 50-rank spread tells parents that Irvington consistently outpaces the field by a wider margin, even though the two campuses are only 2.3 miles apart.

Academically, the two schools are dead even: both Irvington Elementary School and Rose City Park earn a 9.3/10 academic score, meaning proficiency on state assessments is nearly identical. The gap opens on growth. Irvington Elementary School posts a 9.6/10 growth score versus Rose City Park's 8.6/10 — a full point difference. Growth measures how much students gain relative to academic peers year over year, so Irvington is accelerating student progress at a measurably faster rate even when starting points are similar.

The two schools serve very different populations. Rose City Park enrolls 464 students — nearly double Irvington Elementary School's 235 — making it a substantially larger campus. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility stands at 65% at Rose City Park compared to 26% at Irvington Elementary School, a 39-point gap that signals a much higher concentration of economically disadvantaged families at Rose City Park. Student-teacher ratios are close but not identical: 15.7:1 at Irvington versus 16.0:1 at Rose City Park, a negligible operational difference at this scale.

Both schools run kindergarten through fifth grade, so grade structure is not a differentiating factor. The meaningful distinction is Rose City Park's equity footprint — it serves a broader, more economically diverse student body than Irvington Elementary School — while Irvington's superior growth score suggests its instructional model is especially effective at accelerating academic progress for the students it does enroll.