High Lakes Elementary School

High Lakes Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Bend, Oregon, part of Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. Current enrollment sits at 415 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 321.

Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,838 students. High Lakes Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, High Lakes Elementary School logs that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest reads as 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, High Lakes Elementary School records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Deschutes County (around 60%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, High Lakes Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Oregon schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.8%; actual is 64.8%, +21.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for Deschutes County shows median household earnings sit near $92,758, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Deschutes County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), of which High Lakes Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Summit High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), High Lakes Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 33%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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