West Sutherlin Intermediate

West Sutherlin Intermediate operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Sutherlin, Oregon, run under Sutherlin SD 130. Current enrollment sits at 284 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

Within Sutherlin SD 130, which oversees 5 schools and 1,285 students, West Sutherlin Intermediate is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, West Sutherlin Intermediate lists that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, West Sutherlin Intermediate has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages about 16.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 65% of students at West Sutherlin Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Douglas County (around 82%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, West Sutherlin Intermediate sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.4%; actual is 21.8%, a gap of -15.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Douglas County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,310, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Douglas County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,417 students), of which West Sutherlin Intermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sutherlin Valley Online Academy, around 1.1 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Sutherlin Intermediate ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 310 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the West Sutherlin Intermediate community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.