Keno Elementary School

Keno Elementary School is a small primary school in Keno, Oregon, part of Klamath County SD. The school educates 183 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Klamath County SD comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 6,774 students; Keno Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Keno Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Native American. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at Keno Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Keno Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.6%; this one delivers 43.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Klamath County) reports that median household earnings sit near $58,830, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Keno Elementary School is one of 30 public schools in Klamath County (combined enrollment of about 9,474 students).

Joseph Conger Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.3 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Keno Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 24.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Keno Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 187 (now 183). Over the same period, the White share declined from 80% to 74%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.