Summary:
Applegate, Oregon is home to a single listed school: Applegate Elementary School, a K–8 elementary school with 92 students in the Three Rivers/Josephine County School District. The area summary counts 1 elementary, 0 middle, 0 high, and 0 alternative schools, so although Applegate Elementary is classified as an elementary school, it is the only option listed locally and it also covers the middle-grade years. Because there is just one school, the useful comparisons are against the district and the state rather than against a neighboring school.
Applegate Elementary performs above both its district and the state in all three tested subjects overall. In English Language Arts, 53.4% of students were proficient, compared with 40.2% in the district and 43.8% statewide. Math is the clearest strength at 50% proficient, versus 29% in the district and 32.9% in the state. Science came in at 33.3%, also above district and state, though by a smaller margin. Grade-level results show 6th grade ELA at 57.1% and 6th grade Math at 50%, both well above district and state, and 4th grade Math at 53.8%. The one exception is 4th grade ELA at 38.5%, which was below both district and state. The school has earned 4 stars in each of the last three years and ranked 167 of 709 schools in 2025–2026, putting it in the 76th percentile, well above its district's 52nd percentile standing.
Chronic absenteeism is 28.2%, lower than the district's 37.6% and the state's 33.5%. This stands out because 97.83% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, a very high poverty rate, meaning strong proficiency is being achieved despite significant economic disadvantage. Per-student spending was $24,127 and the student-teacher ratio was 13.1, though the dataset offers no district or state comparison for these figures. Parents should note that many grade-level results are suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, which is common in a school this small.
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