Thurston High School

Thurston High School is one of the sizable secondary schools in Springfield, Oregon, part of Springfield SD 19, with 1,215 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Thurston High School sits 93% bigger than that benchmark.

Springfield SD 19 comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 8,928 students; Thurston High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Thurston High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.8:1, putting Thurston High School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Lane County's rate of about 76%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thurston High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Lane County shows median household earnings sit near $71,544, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lane County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students), of which Thurston High School is one.

Thurston Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Thurston High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Thurston High School's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,316 (now 1,215). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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