LaPine Middle School

Set in LaPine, Oregon, LaPine Middle School is a close-knit middle school, part of Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. It enrolls 284 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so LaPine Middle School sits 43% below that benchmark.

Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 16,838 students; LaPine Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, LaPine Middle School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 19.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at LaPine Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Deschutes County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LaPine Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.0%, the actual is 14.9%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Deschutes County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,758 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Deschutes County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), of which LaPine Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: LaPine Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LaPine Middle School comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. LaPine Middle School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 284). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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