Applegate Elementary School

Applegate Elementary School is one of the tiny elementary-level communitys in Applegate, Oregon, part of Three Rivers/Josephine County SD, with 92 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Applegate Elementary School sits 71% smaller than that benchmark.

Applegate Elementary School is one of 17 schools operated by Three Rivers/Josephine County SD, a district that caters to 4,440 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Applegate Elementary School lists that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder looks like 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Applegate Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.6%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of +15.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household income runs about $73,999, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), Applegate Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ruch Outdoor Community School, roughly 5.7 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Applegate Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

Applegate Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 96 students in 2018 compared to 92 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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