Demographics
4J spans 155 square miles (400 km2) in the southern Willamette Valley, including the city of Coburg and a small part of Linn County to the north. About 85 percent of the City of Eugene lies inside 4J's boundaries.
About 16,500 students attend school in the district's 18 elementary school programs, two Kâ8 programs, 7 middle schools, and 4 comprehensive high schools and various alternative high school programs â making it one of the most populous of Oregon's approximately 200 school districts. The four public charter schools located in the district serve about 600 additional students.
Approximately 25 percent of the student body and 10 percent of the teaching staff are members of racial/ethnic minority groups.
About 40 percent of students in the Eugene School District qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a key measure of poverty in school districts. In the 2009 school year, the district had 743 students classified as homeless by the Department of Education, or 4.2% of students in the district.
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