Summary
Maplewood Elementary School is a K–5 public school in Portland, Oregon, serving 296 students in Portland School District 1J, a district that ranks 12th of 141 Oregon districts (91st percentile, 5 stars). Maplewood itself ranked 87th of 709 Oregon elementary schools in 2025–2026, placing it at the 88th percentile with 4 stars. That is a strong statewide position, though it reflects a slight easing from the school's recent peak: Maplewood rose from the 57th percentile in 2018–2019 to the 93rd percentile in 2021–2022, held 5 stars through 2023–2024, and now sits at 88th percentile with 4 stars.
Academically, math is the school's clearest strength. Maplewood is 65.3% proficient in math, which is 14.8 points above the district and 32.4 points above the state, and ranks 4th among 11 nearby schools. English Language Arts is 64.0% proficient, 6.2 points above the district and 20.2 above the state. Science is the exception at 43.9%, slightly below the district's 45.1% and 8th of 11 nearby schools. Grade-level results show a sharp split: 4th graders scored 79.2% in both ELA and math, apparently the highest 4th-grade results in the comparison group, while 5th-grade ELA falls to 52.5%, below the district's 62.4%. This may reflect one cohort rather than a lasting pattern. One important context point is that Maplewood's local peers are unusually strong: Rieke Elementary School, Bridlemile Elementary School, Stephenson Elementary School, Hayhurst Elementary School, Markham Elementary School, and Capitol Hill Elementary School all rank higher or comparably within the same district, while Maplewood is ahead of the nearby Beaverton School District 48J schools except Montclair Elementary School.
Attendance is a genuine strength: chronic absenteeism is 15.7%, less than half the district's 32.5% and the state's 33.5%, though Stephenson Elementary School (10.2%), Montclair Elementary School (13.9%), Rieke Elementary School (14.4%), and Capitol Hill Elementary School (14.7%) are lower. Maplewood reports 41.55% free/reduced lunch, $22,781 per-student spending, and a 17.8 student-teacher ratio that has improved from 20.7 in 2022–2023. Results for low-income students have strengthened notably over time—from 1 star and 12th percentile in 2018–2019 to 5 stars and 93rd percentile in 2021–2022, then 4 stars and 80th percentile in 2022–2023.
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