Sand Ridge Charter School

As an average-sized elementary school in Lebanon, Oregon, Sand Ridge Charter School serves 359 students from grades K through 8, overseen by Lebanon Community SD 9.

Within Lebanon Community SD 9, which oversees 9 schools and 3,916 students, Sand Ridge Charter School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Sand Ridge Charter School lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. Compared to Linn County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Linn County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sand Ridge Charter School ranks in the top 10% of Oregon public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.9%; Sand Ridge Charter School posts 57.7%, +18.8 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Linn County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,329 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Linn County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,916 students), of which Sand Ridge Charter School is one.

The closest other public school is Seven Oak Middle School, roughly 2.4 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sand Ridge Charter School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. Sand Ridge Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Sand Ridge Charter School's enrollment has rose 13% since 2018, when it stood at 318 (now 359). Class-load math has loosened: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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