Lee Elementary School vs Llewellyn Elementary School

Lee Elementary School ranks #50 of 1,226 Oregon elementary schools while Llewellyn Elementary School ranks #22 of the same pool — a 28-position gap despite both sitting within the top 5% statewide. On overall rating, Llewellyn Elementary School scores 9.3/10 against Lee Elementary School's 9.0/10, a 0.3-point difference that understates how much ground separates their academic profiles when you look beneath the composite number.

The academic score tells a sharper story: Llewellyn Elementary School posts a 9.9/10 versus Lee Elementary School's 8.4/10 — a 1.5-point gap that reflects meaningful differences in tested proficiency. Lee Elementary School closes some of that distance on growth, scoring 9.4/10 against Llewellyn Elementary School's 9.0/10, meaning students at Lee Elementary School are advancing at a faster rate relative to academic starting points even though absolute proficiency trails. For families weighing where a child currently performs against where a child is headed, these two numbers pull in opposite directions.

The demographic profiles diverge sharply. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility stands at 73% at Lee Elementary School versus 19% at Llewellyn Elementary School, indicating very different socioeconomic compositions across the two campuses. Lee Elementary School enrolls 289 students; Llewellyn Elementary School serves 393, a 36% larger student body. Student-teacher ratios are close — 16.1:1 at Lee Elementary School and 15.7:1 at Llewellyn Elementary School — so neither school holds a structural classroom-size advantage.

Both schools serve grades KG–05 and sit 5.9 miles apart within Portland, making them a practical geographic alternative to one another for some families. Beyond grade span, no program-level distinctions are available in the current data set, so the comparison rests cleanly on the rating, rank, and score differentials above. Families who live between the two attendance zones have a genuine choice, and the growth score at Lee Elementary School is the clearest counter-argument to Llewellyn Elementary School's otherwise dominant position on every other metric.