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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6

Foster Elementary School, Foster, OR

CEP schoolFoster Elementary School is a public elementary school in Foster, part of Sweet Home SD 55. It enrolled 277 students in 2024-25, with 16.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
277
Teachers (FTE)
17.0
Students per teacher
16.3
Grades
K to 6

This school's ratio is 0.9 lower than the district figure of 17.2. The Oregon average across schools is 18.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.3
District17.2
Oregon18.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
5526 Poplar, Foster, OR 97345
Phone
(541)367-7180
District
Sweet Home SD 55
County
Linn County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Distant
NCES school ID
411197000701
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
208
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
20875.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification
166Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Sweet Home SD 55

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.