Sky View Middle School

As a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Bend, Oregon, Sky View Middle School enrolls 598 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Sky View Middle School sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Sky View Middle School is one of 35 schools operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, a district that instructs 16,838 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Sky View Middle School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.9:1. The state averages around 19.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 48% of students at Sky View Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Deschutes County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sky View Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Deschutes County shows median household earnings sit near $92,758, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sky View Middle School is one of 53 public schools in Deschutes County (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students).

The closest other public school is Lava Ridge Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sky View Middle School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sky View Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 689 students in 2018 compared to 598 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 84% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

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