High Desert Middle School

High Desert Middle School operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Bend, Oregon, operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. Current enrollment sits at 668 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so High Desert Middle School sits 35% larger than that benchmark.

Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 16,838 students; High Desert Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, High Desert Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Deschutes County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, High Desert Middle School records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting High Desert Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Deschutes County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, High Desert Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Deschutes County) records that the typical household earns roughly $92,758 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Deschutes County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), of which High Desert Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Caldera High School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts High Desert Middle School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.4%.

High Desert Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 793 students in 2018 compared to 668 in 2025.

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