Bend Senior High School

Located at 230 NE 6th St, in Bend, Oregon, Bend Senior High School is a well-populated high school that enrolls 1,204 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. Compared to the state average of about 630 students per school, that is 91% bigger than typical.

Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 16,838 students; Bend Senior High School is among them.

On demographics, Bend Senior High School logs that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Bend Senior High School has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.4:1. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at Bend Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Deschutes County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bend Senior High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.8%; this one comes in at 21.4%, -22.4 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Deschutes County shows median household earnings sit near $92,758, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Deschutes County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), of which Bend Senior High School is one.

The closest other public school is Bear Creek Elementary School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bend Senior High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bend Senior High School has declined 32%, going from 1,774 students in 2018 to 1,204 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Bend Senior High School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.