Pine Ridge Elementary

Set in Bend, Oregon, Pine Ridge Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary-level community, run under Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. It caters to 528 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Pine Ridge Elementary sits 64% larger than that benchmark.

Pine Ridge Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, a district that caters to 16,838 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pine Ridge Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 78%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Deschutes County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pine Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of +15.2 points.

Across the wider county, Deschutes County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,758 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Pine Ridge Elementary is one of 53 public schools in Deschutes County (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students).

Nearest neighbor: Elk Meadow Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Ridge Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pine Ridge Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Ridge Elementary has showed little movement, going from 518 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 78% over that span.

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