Luckiamute Valley Charter School

Luckiamute Valley Charter School, a tight-knit elementary campus in Monmouth, Oregon, operated by Dallas SD 2, instructs 213 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Across the 7 schools in Dallas SD 2 (2,953 students total), Luckiamute Valley Charter School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Luckiamute Valley Charter School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Polk County (around 84%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Luckiamute Valley Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.2%.

In the broader community, Polk County reports that median household earnings sit near $85,118, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Polk County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,121 students), of which Luckiamute Valley Charter School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kings Valley Charter School, around 3.6 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Luckiamute Valley Charter School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area. Luckiamute Valley Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Luckiamute Valley Charter School's enrollment has increased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 184 (now 213). White enrollment moved from 81% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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