Coffenberry Middle School

Coffenberry Middle School, a compact middle school in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, one of the schools within South Umpqua SD 19, enrolls 267 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 494 students per school, that is 46% smaller than typical.

South Umpqua SD 19 comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,420 students; Coffenberry Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Coffenberry Middle School shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Coffenberry Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.0%; Coffenberry Middle School posts 10.8%, -19.2 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Douglas County shows median household earnings sit near $61,310, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Douglas County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,417 students), Coffenberry Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Myrtle Creek Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Coffenberry Middle School. On composite proficiency, Coffenberry Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

Coffenberry Middle School operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coffenberry Middle School has decreased 15%, going from 313 students in 2018 to 267 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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