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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BEND-LAPINE ADMINISTRATIVE SD 1·NCES 410198001747
Ponderosa Elementary
63100 NE Purcell, Bend, OR 97701 · (541) 355-4300 · Deschutes County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
223 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 94 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
63.7%
OR avg 43.0% . +7.8pp since 2023
Math
49.5%
OR avg 31.8% . +7.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.7% | 49.5% |
| 2023-24 | 55.9% | 41.9% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ponderosa Elementary
Ponderosa Elementary's state test result (49.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponderosa Elementary this school | 464 | 48.1% | 49.3% |
| Silver Rail Elementary School Bend | 457 | 48.1% | 44.8% |
| Pine Ridge Elementary Bend | 528 | 48.3% | 59.0% |
| Banks Elementary School Banks | 430 | 48.4% | 36.8% |
| Juniper Elementary School Bend | 432 | 47.7% | 51.9% |
| Three Rivers Elementary School Sunriver | 421 | 48.0% | 37.4% |
Matched among Oregon elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ponderosa Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Deschutes County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #128 of 591 | #10 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #137 of 646 ▲ 76 | #8 of 30 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #95 of 646 ▲ 54 | #8 of 30 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #103 of 710 | #7 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #518 of 587 | #24 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.9% | #492 of 587 | #15 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #572 of 645 | #23 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #231 of 493 | #10 of 21 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
464
+68 (+17%) vs 2020
-23% since 2010-11, when it was 599
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 464 | 23.5 | 19.7:1 | 48% (223) |
| 2023-24 | 469 | 26.6 | 17.6:1 | 41% (190) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 24.5 | 19.3:1 | 25% (119) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 26 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 584 | 30.5 | 19.2:1 | 41% (238) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 29 | 19.6:1 | 43% (242) |
| 2010-11 | 599 | 27 | 22.2:1 | 50% (297) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ponderosa Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (584 to 464); teachers down 23% (30.5 to 23.5).
About Ponderosa Elementary
Ponderosa Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Bend, Oregon. The school had 464 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Oregon) has about 321 students.
Ponderosa Elementary is one of 35 schools in Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, which enrolls 16,838 students in total.
At 78%, White students outnumber all other groups at Ponderosa Elementary combined. The remaining students are 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Deschutes County, the White share is about 87%. Ponderosa Elementary has a diversity index of 37%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at Ponderosa Elementary total 23.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 19.7:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Oregon average 16.5:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 48%. Compared with the 60% average for public schools in Deschutes County, the school's rate is lower.
On BeatsExpectations, Ponderosa Elementary is 5.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Oregon schools.
According to the American Community Survey, in Deschutes County, median household income is about $92,758, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 53 public schools operate in Deschutes County, serving about 25,823 students.
The next-closest public school is Realms High School, about 0.9 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Ponderosa Elementary. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, Ponderosa Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Ponderosa Elementary is Rural: Fringe, which covers schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 464, 17% above the 396 of 2020-21. The school's ratio rose from 15.2:1 to 19.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Deschutes County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
206,334
Census ACS
Median income
$92,758
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
53
25,823 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1
- Caldera High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Bend Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,204 students
- Mountain View Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- High Desert Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
Other schools in Bend
- Caldera High SchoolHigh · 1,354 students
- Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Bend Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,204 students
- Mountain View Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- High Desert Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
Other Ponderosa Elementary schools
11 other US public schools in 8 states are named Ponderosa Elementary. Ponderosa Elementary is the 6th largest of the 12.
- Ponderosa ElementaryAnaheim, CA · 785 students
- Ponderosa Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 740 students
- Ponderosa Elementary SchoolAURORA, CO · 634 students
- Ponderosa ElementarySunnyvale, CA · 524 students
- PONDEROSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPOST FALLS, ID · 466 students
Nearby schools
- Realms High School0.9 mi · 148
- Realms Middle School0.9 mi · 156
- Sky View Middle School1.1 mi · 598
- Lava Ridge Elementary School1.1 mi · 404
- Mountain View Senior High School1.1 mi · 1,161
- Oregon Family School1.3 mi · 919
Frequently asked questions
About Ponderosa ElementaryHow large is Ponderosa Elementary?
Ponderosa Elementary enrolls approximately 464 students in grades KG-05.
Is Ponderosa Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ponderosa Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Ponderosa Elementary?
Approximately 19.7:1 students per teacher at Ponderosa Elementary.
How diverse is Ponderosa Elementary?
Ponderosa Elementary reports a student body of 78% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Ponderosa Elementary?
Ponderosa Elementary is overseen by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1 in Deschutes County.
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