Sisters Middle School

Sisters Middle School operates as a low-enrollment middle school in Sisters, Oregon, overseen by Sisters SD 6. Current enrollment sits at 260 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 494 students.

Sisters SD 6 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,170 students; Sisters Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sisters Middle School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Deschutes County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sisters Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Deschutes County) logs that median household income runs about $92,758, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sisters Middle School is one of 53 public schools in Deschutes County (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sisters Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Sisters Middle School. On composite proficiency, Sisters Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 260 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Sisters Middle School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.