Four Rivers Community School

Set in Ontario, Oregon, Four Rivers Community School is an average-sized combined-grade school, part of Oregon Department of Education. It caters to 367 students across grades K through 12.

Within Oregon Department of Education, which oversees 5 schools and 1,074 students, Four Rivers Community School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Four Rivers Community School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Other groups include 15% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.5:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Malheur County's rate of about 89%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Four Rivers Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Malheur County put median household income runs about $54,519, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Malheur County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,566 students), of which Four Rivers Community School is one.

Aiken Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Four Rivers Community School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 25.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. Four Rivers Community School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Four Rivers Community School's enrollment has rose 20% since 2018, when it stood at 305 (now 367).

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.