Kelly Middle School

Kelly Middle School is a compact junior high in Eugene, Oregon, overseen by Eugene SD 4J. The school serves 407 students in grades 6 through 8.

Eugene SD 4J comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 15,712 students; Kelly Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kelly Middle School lists that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Lane County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 19.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lane County (around 76%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kelly Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 25.9%, a residual of -11.7 points.

In the area at large, Lane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,544 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kelly Middle School is one of 117 public schools in Lane County (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students).

Howard Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kelly Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kelly Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.0%.

Kelly Middle School operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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