Lourdes School

Lourdes School, an one-room-style primary school in Scio, Oregon, operated by Scio SD 95, hosts 36 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 89% leaner than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Scio SD 95 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,998 students; Lourdes School is among them.

On demographics, Lourdes School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest breaks down as 6% Native American. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Linn County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,329 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Linn County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,916 students), of which Lourdes School is one.

The closest other public school is Mari-Linn School, roughly 5.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. Lourdes School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lourdes School has declined 25%, going from 48 students in 2018 to 36 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 0% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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