Al Kennedy High School

Al Kennedy High School is a secondary school of minimally staffed scale in Cottage Grove, Oregon, one of the schools within South Lane SD 45J3, teacheing 62 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Al Kennedy High School sits 90% below that benchmark.

Across the 9 schools in South Lane SD 45J3 (2,697 students total), Al Kennedy High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Al Kennedy High School logs that White students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Hispanic, 5% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Lane County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.8:1, putting Al Kennedy High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Al Kennedy High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lane County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Lane County reports that median household income runs about $71,544, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lane County's 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students), Al Kennedy High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Academy for Character Education, around 3.2 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Al Kennedy High School's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 80 (now 62). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 6% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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