Woodland Charter School

As an intimate elementary school in Grants Pass, Oregon, Woodland Charter School serves 205 students from grades K through 8, part of Three Rivers/Josephine County SD. That puts it 36% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 321 students.

Within Three Rivers/Josephine County SD, which oversees 17 schools and 4,440 students, Woodland Charter School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Woodland Charter School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Roughly 102% of students at Woodland Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Josephine County runs at roughly 84%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodland Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 23.1%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Josephine County shows median household income runs about $60,098, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Josephine County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,944 students), Woodland Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hidden Valley High School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Woodland Charter School. On composite proficiency, Woodland Charter School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area. Woodland Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Woodland Charter School's enrollment has increased 21% since 2018, when it stood at 170 (now 205). Class-load math has loosened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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