Prospect Charter School

Prospect Charter School is a close-knit multi-level school in Prospect, Oregon, operated by Prospect SD 59. The school caters to 215 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 384 students.

Prospect SD 59 is the operating authority for Prospect Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Prospect Charter School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Prospect Charter School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 22.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Prospect Charter School is in the bottom 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.5%; Prospect Charter School posts 16.8%, -16.7 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jackson County shows median household income runs about $73,999, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Jackson County's 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), Prospect Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Butte Falls Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 15.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Prospect Charter School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting. As a public charter, Prospect Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prospect Charter School has shrank 6%, going from 228 students in 2018 to 215 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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