Desert View Elementary School, Hermiston OR

Original Research by School Decision on Desert View Elementary School

Desert View Elementary School serves kindergarten through fifth grade in Hermiston, a city that has grown from an agricultural center into a regional hub for logistics, data centers, and food processing. The school is part of the Hermiston School District, which opened a new elementary school in 2022, reflecting the area’s ongoing growth.

The student body is mixed, with roughly equal shares of white and Hispanic students and a smaller portion identifying as two or more races. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the economic context families here navigate. The school has a student population that is moderate in size for an elementary school.

On state assessments, Desert View’s results show a pattern that varies by grade and subject. In math, fourth graders demonstrated a stronger proficiency rate than third or fifth graders. In English language arts, the school’s fifth graders showed a notably higher proficiency rate than third graders, with fourth graders falling between them. Fifth graders’ performance in science was comparable to the school’s math results at that grade level. Across all subjects and grades combined, the school’s overall proficiency placed it in the top quartile among districts in Umatilla County, meaning it performed above the midpoint locally. A parent should note that these results come from a single year of data, so there is no multi-year trend to compare against.

The city of Hermiston itself has been growing quickly, driven in part by an increase in Latino residents and by investment in logistics and data-center operations near the interstate interchange. Major employers include Amazon Web Services, the Good Shepherd Healthcare System, a Walmart distribution center, and food processors like Lamb Weston. The local economy is a mix of industrial, healthcare, and education sectors. Housing values in the area are below the state median, and rents absorb a modest share of typical household income.

Because Desert View serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report, and data on discipline, staffing, and chronic absenteeism were not available in the materials reviewed. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet. Without information on special education or English learner enrollment, a parent with a child who may need those services would want to ask the school directly about the supports offered.

For a family considering this school, the picture is one of a mid-sized elementary in a growing, economically mixed community where academic performance sits above average relative to other schools in the county, with some variation across grades. The lack of multi-year data makes it hard to know whether this year’s results reflect a steady pattern or an outlier. The community is anchored in agriculture and industry, with a young and increasingly diverse population, and the district has recently invested in new school capacity to match that growth.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 42% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 460%

School 60% · District 36% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 30% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 44% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 454%

School 54% · District 42% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 42% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Science

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 21% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

This schoolHermiston SD 8, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.