Childhood poverty surged in already poor Portland-area school districts but remained low or even fell in other districts, new census data shows.
Childhood poverty surged in already poor Portland-area school districts but remained low or even fell in other districts, new census data shows.
Nine of the 10 large Oregon districts where fewer than 15 percent of school-age children lived in poverty in 2010 are in Portland’s suburbs. They include Sherwood, Lake Oswego, West Linn-Wilsonville and Beaverton,where child poverty rates range from 5 percent to 10 percent. Those rates were largely unchanged from the prior year.
Only a short drive away, meanwhile, two other large school districts –Reynolds and David Douglas, both in Multnomah County and including portions of the city of Portland — posted the third- and fourth-highest poverty rates among large Oregon districts. In those two, nearly one in three children — or more than 7,800 5- to 17-year-olds — lived in poverty during 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.
The federal poverty line for that year was set at $22,314 a year for a family of four.
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