Ione Community Charter School

Ione Community Charter School is one of the micro-enrollment all-grades campuss in Ione, Oregon, part of Ione SD R2, with 113 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. That puts it 71% leaner than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 384 students.

Ione Community Charter School is a school of Ione SD R2, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Ione Community Charter School logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 34% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.5:1, putting Ione Community Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Morrow County's rate of about 69%.

With demographic context factored in, Ione Community Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of -10.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Morrow County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,448 per year, about 10% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Morrow County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,347 students), Ione Community Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Heppner Junior/Senior High School, around 15.9 miles off. On composite proficiency, Ione Community Charter School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting. Ione Community Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Ione Community Charter School's enrollment has ticked down 37% since 2018, when it stood at 180 (now 113). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 29% to 34%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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