LaPine Senior High School

LaPine Senior High School, an intimate 9-12 campus in LaPine, Oregon, overseen by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, serves 440 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so LaPine Senior High School sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

LaPine Senior High School is one of 35 schools operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, a district that instructs 16,838 students overall.

On demographics, LaPine Senior High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at LaPine Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Deschutes County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, LaPine Senior High School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.7%; LaPine Senior High School posts 18.1%, -25.6 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Deschutes County indicate median household income runs about $92,758, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Deschutes County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), of which LaPine Senior High School is one.

LaPine Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LaPine Senior High School at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. LaPine Senior High School's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 440). Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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