Best Public Schools in Condon, OR

Condon, Oregon has two public schools, both in Condon School District 25J: Condon Elementary School, serving grades K–8 with 85 students, and Condon High School, serving grades 9–12 with 46 students. Together they enroll 131 students. There is no separate middle school and no alternative school, so the elementary school includes the middle grades and the high school is the district's only one. Both are very small, which shapes how their data should be read.

The two schools show opposite profiles. Condon Elementary School's standout is attendance: 17.1% chronic absenteeism, below the district's 23.0% and far below the state's 33.5% — roughly half. Its 8th-grade results are also a bright spot: 53.3% proficient in ELA versus 41.5% statewide, and 33.3% in math versus 30.0%. But its all-grade proficiency sits below district and state levels in every subject, especially science at 17.4% against 25.8% in the district and 30.6% statewide, and its latest ranking, from 2023–24, was 479th of 710, 33rd percentile, 2 stars. Condon High School's standout is its 2024–25 ranking of 40th of 270, 85th percentile, 4 stars, along with a 100% graduation rate compared with 83% statewide. Its chronic absenteeism, however, is 34.1% — slightly above the state and about double the elementary school's — and its test scores are suppressed, so its proficiency is unknown.

Other differences stand out. Condon High School spends $36,887 per student with a 9.8 student-teacher ratio, while the elementary school spends $29,747 with a ratio of 11.5 — yet attendance is worse at the high school, so smaller classes and higher spending do not track neatly with attendance here. The high school's ranking is also volatile: 30th percentile in 2023–24, 85th in 2024–25, and 1st of 283 back in 2017–18; with only 46 students, such swings are likely. Many figures are suppressed because of small enrollment, and the elementary school's free/reduced-lunch figure of 114.12% is a reporting anomaly, not a usable poverty rate.