Summary
W L Henry Elementary School is a K–6 school of 284 students in Hillsboro, Oregon, part of Hillsboro School District 1J, serving a high-poverty population with 77.46% free/reduced lunch. It is the smallest school in its immediate neighborhood cluster, so each grade level has only about 40 students and small changes can shift percentages. Over the ten most recent reporting years, it has never left the bottom fifth of Oregon elementary schools, averaging about the 9th percentile.
In 2025-26, 27.2% met standards in English language arts, 15.8% in math, and 14.9% in science. Math is the sharper, more consistent problem: every grade from 3rd through 6th scored between 14.3% and 18.2%, never within 10.7 points of the district. Reading varies more, from 10.8% in 4th grade to 39.1% in 5th. Nearby comparisons are revealing. Eastwood Elementary School, 0.82 miles away with almost the same poverty rate, performs worse at 14.7% ELA and 9.5% math. Brookwood Elementary School, 0.75 miles away, reaches 33.0% ELA and 22.9% math. Imlay Elementary School, 1.72 miles away with similar poverty and $1,638 less spent per student, posts 56.6% ELA, 46.7% math, and 45.8% science.
Chronic absenteeism is a real strength: the school has been below its district and the state for five straight years, and its 2024-25 rate of 29.5% was third-best among eleven local schools. English Language Learners improved sharply to the 59th percentile in 2025-26 after ranking 29th and 6th previously. The weakest result is for low-income students, at the 7th percentile; since 77% of the school is low-income, this subgroup essentially represents the whole building. Per-student spending is the highest locally at $23,506, while the student–teacher ratio jumped to 18.5 from 15.3 in one year. Overall, this is a very small, very high-poverty, well-funded school with long-standing low achievement, a systemic math weakness, strong attendance relative to peers, and a sharply improving record with English Language Learners.
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