Cove Charter School

Set in Cove, Oregon, Cove Charter School is a low-enrollment multi-level school, operated by Cove SD 15. It enrolls 290 students across grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 384 students per school, that is 24% below typical.

Cove Charter School sits inside Cove SD 15, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Cove Charter School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cove Charter School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.5:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at Cove Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Union County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cove Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Union County indicate median household earnings sit near $65,661, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Cove Charter School is one of 13 public schools in Union County (combined enrollment of about 3,646 students).

Union Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Cove Charter School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The school occupies a small-town site. As a public charter, Cove Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Cove Charter School's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 277 (now 290).

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