Winterhaven School vs Grout Elementary School

Grout Elementary School holds a 0.3-point overall rating edge over Winterhaven School — 9.4/10 versus 9.1/10 — but both schools rank among Oregon's top 40 out of 1,226 schools statewide. Grout Elementary School sits at #14 in Oregon while Winterhaven School ranks #38, meaning parents in Portland's southeast neighborhoods are genuinely choosing between two high-performing schools separated by less than a mile.

The academic picture splits in an unexpected direction. Winterhaven School posts a perfect 10.0/10 academic score against Grout Elementary School's 9.3/10 — a 0.7-point gap favoring Winterhaven. Grout, however, edges ahead on growth: a 9.8/10 growth score versus Winterhaven's 9.6/10. That means Grout is pushing students further from wherever they start, while Winterhaven's incoming students are already performing at a level that produces higher raw proficiency numbers. Neither advantage is dramatic, but families prioritizing ceiling scores will look at Winterhaven differently than those prioritizing improvement velocity.

The demographic and structural differences are sharper. Grout Elementary School enrolls 302 students at a 16.8:1 student-teacher ratio, with 65% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Winterhaven School has 315 students but a notably higher 19.7:1 ratio — nearly three additional students per teacher — and only 23% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The 42-percentage-point free/reduced lunch gap reflects meaningfully different socioeconomic compositions, which in turn likely shapes each school's resource environment, parent engagement patterns, and classroom dynamics.

Winterhaven School extends through grade 8, making it a KG–08 school rather than a traditional elementary program, so families choosing it may avoid a middle school transition entirely. Grout Elementary School covers KG–05 only, feeding into the standard Portland middle school pathway. That structural difference — five years of schooling versus nine in one building — may matter as much to some families as any rating or test score.