Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School

Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School, a minimally staffed primary school in Corvallis, Oregon, overseen by Corvallis SD 509J, teaches 107 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% smaller than the state mean of about 321.

Corvallis SD 509J comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,916 students; Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School is among them.

Demographically, Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School records that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.5:1, putting Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Benton County) records that the typical household earns roughly $77,702 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School is one of 26 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 9,268 students).

Philomath Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School operates from a countryside location. Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 110 students in 2018 compared to 107 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 11% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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