Summary:
Applegate, Oregon is home to just one elementary school — Applegate Elementary School — a small K–8 campus of 92 students in the rural Applegate Valley, part of the Three Rivers/Josephine County School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the city data, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local schools; the most useful benchmarks are the district and Oregon state averages.
Academically, the school looks strong. It earned a 4-star rating in each of the last three reported school years and ranked 167th out of 709 Oregon schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 76th percentile — up from 209th the year before. Its district is rated 3 stars and sits in the 52nd percentile. In 2025–2026 aggregate OSAS results, the school beat both its district and the state in all three tested subjects: English Language Arts (53.4, versus 40.2 district and 43.8 state), Mathematics (50.0, versus 29.0 and 32.9), and Science (33.3, versus 28.4 and 30.6). Parents should note that results vary by grade — 4th-grade ELA was 38.5, below district and state, while 6th-grade ELA was 57.1, well above both.
Other metrics are also worth knowing. Chronic absenteeism was 28.2% in 2024–2025, better than the district's 37.6% and the state's 33.5%, though still meaning more than one in four students missed significant school time. Nearly all students (97.83%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, and per-student spending was $24,127, with a 13.1 student-teacher ratio. With only 92 students, percentages can swing on a single child, and many grade-level scores are suppressed by the state as "—" to protect privacy; those should be read as unknown, not as poor performance.
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