Sams Valley Elementary School

As a small K-5 school in Central Point, Oregon, Sams Valley Elementary School serves 227 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Central Point SD 6. Compared to the state average of about 321 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Central Point SD 6 runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 6,241 students. Sams Valley Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Sams Valley Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Sams Valley Elementary School logs 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. The state averages around 16.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sams Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 35.7%, a residual of +3.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,999, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Jackson County runs 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), of which Sams Valley Elementary School is one.

Crater Lake Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sams Valley Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Sams Valley Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 227). White enrollment moved from 75% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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