Summary:
La Pine, Oregon, a small high-poverty community in central Oregon, is served by four public schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — enrolling 1,362 students across kindergarten through 12th grade, all within the Bend-LaPine Administrative School District 1. Three of the four campuses report free- or reduced-lunch rates near 99%. The district overall is rated highly (34th of 141 districts, 76th percentile, 4 stars), but every La Pine campus ranks far lower within its own school level — between the 3rd and 23rd percentile, with 0 to 1 stars.
Comparing campuses, LaPine Elementary School is the strongest elementary performer, with all-grade ELA at 23.5% and math at 23.7%, ahead of Rosland Elementary's 14.7% in both; its 5th grade ELA result of 32.9% is the best elementary grade-level score in the group, even though it spends the least per student ($16,374). Rosland is the outlier: smallest enrollment (155), lowest student-teacher ratio (10.8), and highest per-student spending ($23,382), yet the lowest rank percentile (3rd, 0 stars) and weakest all-grade results. LaPine Middle School improved from the 5th percentile in 2023-24 to 11th in 2024-25 and 2025-26, with 8th grade its best grade. LaPine Senior High School holds the highest rank percentile here (23rd, 1 star), but its all-grade and 11th grade math is under 5%, its ELA is 14.3%, and its graduation rate is 73.8%.
Across all four schools, all-grade ELA, math, and science sit below both district and state — for example, LaPine Elementary's 23.5% ELA against the district's 53.0% and the state's 43.8%. Chronic absenteeism is 43.3% to 48.5% at every La Pine school, roughly 10–15 percentage points above the district's 34.2% and the state's 33.5%. A few bright spots exist: LaPine Senior High's 11th grade science (25.9%) beats the district's 24.2%, and LaPine Middle's 8th grade ELA (24.7%) and math (20.5%) are its best results.
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