Burnt River School

Burnt River School is an one-room-style all-grades campus in Unity, Oregon, run under Burnt River SD 30J. The school instructs 55 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 86% smaller than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 384 students.

Operationally, Burnt River School answers to Burnt River SD 30J, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Burnt River School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.5:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Burnt River School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Baker County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Baker County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,936 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Burnt River School is one of 15 public schools in Baker County (combined enrollment of about 5,551 students).

Nearest neighbor: Oregon Connections Academy, around 25.5 miles off.

The school occupies a rural site. Burnt River School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burnt River School has grew 45%, going from 38 students in 2018 to 55 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 16% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 7.9:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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