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Public school / Primary

Buff Elementary School

Madras, Oregon

NCES ID
410674001569
District
Jefferson County SD 509j
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Buff Elementary School is a public primary school in Madras, Oregon, run by Jefferson County SD 509j. It enrols 274 students — the 69162nd largest of 1,300 public schools in Oregon.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

274students

69162nd nationally, tied with 123

Teachers

21.0FTE

62587th nationally, tied with 2,266

Students per teacher

13.0students

28473rd nationally, tied with 941

Free or reduced-price lunch

93.8%percent

9675th nationally, tied with 89

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Jefferson County SD 509j

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Madras High School781 students
  2. 2Warm Springs K-8 Academy530 students
  3. 3Jefferson County Middle School473 students
  4. 4Madras Elementary School363 students
  5. 5Buff Elementary School274 students
  6. 6Metolius Elementary School230 students
  7. 7Bridges High School73 students
  8. 8509j on-Line45 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Oregon median across 1,300 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−24.6%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher−26.1%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+45.7%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.