Astoria CUSD 1

Astoria CUSD 1 has three schools serving preschool through grade 12: Astoria Elementary School (PK–5), Astoria Junior High School (6–8), and Astoria High School (9–12). The clearest current academic concern is elementary ELA: in 2025–2026, 34% of students were proficient on all-grades IAR, compared with 56% statewide, a 23-point gap; the junior high was closer at 49%, 7 points below the state. The elementary school’s ELA result is the district’s largest current gap from the state in the shared all-grades IAR results.

The schools’ relative strengths differ by subject. The junior high leads in all-grades IAR ELA, outscoring the elementary school by 15 points, while the elementary school leads in math, 28% to 22%; both math results trail the state’s 40%. High school 11th-grade ACT ELA was essentially level with the state in 2025–2026 (50.0% versus 49.9%), but ACT science was lower at 42% versus 48%. Science results also vary by grade: eighth-grade ISA was 55% at the junior high, 3 points above the state, while fifth-grade ISA was 46% at the elementary school, 2 points below. The high school’s 100% graduation rate is a bright spot, alongside chronic absenteeism of 35%, compared with 24% statewide.

Recent trends reinforce that results are not moving together: elementary IAR ELA fell 15 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while junior-high ELA rose 11 points; high school ACT ELA climbed 23 points to its near-state result. SchoolDigger’s latest listed percentiles likewise vary: elementary was at 26, down from 57, while high school was at 49, up from 28; the district is ranked 565 of 738, in the 23rd percentile, with one star. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 61% at elementary, 50% at junior high, and 44% at high school; student–teacher ratios were 11.9, 7.6, and 7.3, respectively.