Kalmiopsis Elementary School

Kalmiopsis Elementary School, a large primary school in Brookings, Oregon, overseen by Brookings-Harbor SD 17C, instructs 547 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Kalmiopsis Elementary School sits 70% larger than that benchmark.

Brookings-Harbor SD 17C comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,278 students; Kalmiopsis Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Kalmiopsis Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest consists of 20% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Native American. By comparison, Curry County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kalmiopsis Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kalmiopsis Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.2%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Curry County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,244 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Curry County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,913 students), Kalmiopsis Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Brookings-Harbor High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kalmiopsis Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 27.7%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Kalmiopsis Elementary School's enrollment has declined 26% since 2018, when it stood at 736 (now 547). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 16% to 20% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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