William E Miller Elementary

William E Miller Elementary is one of the high-enrollment K-5 schools in Bend, Oregon, operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, with 501 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so William E Miller Elementary sits 56% bigger than that benchmark.

William E Miller Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Bend-LaPine Administrative SD 1, a district that serves 16,838 students overall.

Demographically, William E Miller Elementary records that nearly all students (90%) are White. The remainder comes out to 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Deschutes County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Deschutes County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, William E Miller Elementary 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 43.9%; William E Miller Elementary posts 62.3%, +18.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Deschutes County put median household earnings sit near $92,758, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Deschutes County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,823 students), William E Miller Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pacific Crest Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts William E Miller Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 55.3%.

William E Miller Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at William E Miller Elementary has ticked down 22%, going from 645 students in 2018 to 501 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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