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Marshfield Junior High
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Located at 755 S 7th St, in Coos Bay, Oregon, Marshfield Junior High is a small intermediate school that instructs 418 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Coos Bay SD 9.
Coos Bay SD 9 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 2,907 students. Marshfield Junior High is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Marshfield Junior High records that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Marshfield Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Coos County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marshfield Junior High is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.4%; Marshfield Junior High posts 26.9%, -20.6 points below that line.
In the area at large, Coos County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,143, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Marshfield Junior High is one of 28 public schools in Coos County (combined enrollment of about 8,218 students).
The closest other public school is Marshfield Senior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marshfield Junior High at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.1%.
Marshfield Junior High operates from a town-center location.
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