Amity Creek Elementary School

Amity Creek Elementary School is a modestly sized elementary school in Bend, Oregon, one of the schools within Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. The school enrolls 144 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 321.

Within Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, which oversees 35 schools and 16,838 students, Amity Creek Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Amity Creek Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Deschutes County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Amity Creek Elementary School reports 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Amity Creek Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Deschutes County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Amity Creek Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.2%; this one delivers 60.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Deschutes County put median household income runs about $92,758, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Deschutes County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), Amity Creek Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Highland School at Kenwood Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Amity Creek Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 144 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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