Barnes Butte Elementary

Barnes Butte Elementary operates as a roomy K-5 school in Prineville, Oregon, part of Crook County SD. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 321 students per school, that is 59% above typical.

Crook County SD runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 3,279 students. Barnes Butte Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Barnes Butte Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Barnes Butte Elementary lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Barnes Butte Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.8%; this one delivers 37.4%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Crook County indicate median household income runs about $81,965, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Crook County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,788 students), Barnes Butte Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crooked River Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Barnes Butte Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barnes Butte Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.7%.

Barnes Butte Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Barnes Butte Elementary's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 652 (now 510). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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