Summary:
The city of Aumsville, Oregon is home to two schools - Aumsville Elementary School and Cascade Opportunity Center, both of which serve students in the Cascade School District 5. While Aumsville Elementary is a relatively large elementary school, Cascade Opportunity Center is a small alternative high school, each facing unique challenges and opportunities.
Aumsville Elementary School struggles academically, with consistently low test scores in ELA, math, and science compared to the district and state averages. The school also has a high chronic absenteeism rate of 34.3%, suggesting a need to focus on improving student engagement and support. Despite serving a high-need population, with 66.89% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch, the school is ranked in the bottom half of Oregon elementary schools.
In contrast, Cascade Opportunity Center, as an alternative high school, faces even greater academic challenges, with extremely low test scores and only about a quarter of students proficient in ELA and less than 10% proficient in math. However, the school maintains a relatively high graduation rate of 81.8%, indicating it may be providing valuable support and opportunities for its at-risk student population. The stark contrast in student-teacher ratios between the two schools (17.5 at Aumsville Elementary vs. 251.4 at Cascade Opportunity Center) suggests vastly different resource allocations and learning environments.
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