Pilot Butte Middle School

Pilot Butte Middle School operates as a reasonably sized junior high in Bend, Oregon, part of Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. Current enrollment sits at 589 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Across the 35 schools in Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 (16,838 students total), Pilot Butte Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Pilot Butte Middle School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Pilot Butte Middle School has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. The state averages about 19.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 47% of students at Pilot Butte Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Deschutes County's rate of about 60%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pilot Butte Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Deschutes County put the typical household earns roughly $92,758 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Deschutes County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), Pilot Butte Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Juniper Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pilot Butte Middle School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pilot Butte Middle School has contracted 10%, going from 652 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 74%.

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