Camas Valley School

Located at 197 Main Camas Rd, in Camas Valley, Oregon, Camas Valley School is a small multi-level school that educates 207 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within Camas Valley SD 21J. That puts it 46% leaner than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 384 students.

Camas Valley SD 21J is the operating authority for Camas Valley School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Camas Valley School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.5:1, putting Camas Valley School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Douglas County's rate of about 82%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Camas Valley School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Douglas County put median household earnings sit near $61,310, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Douglas County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,417 students), Camas Valley School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Dillard Alternative High School, roughly 13.2 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Camas Valley School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.6%.

Camas Valley School operates from a small-town location. Camas Valley School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Camas Valley School's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 207). Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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