Best Public Schools in Lowell, OR

Lowell, Oregon has four schools serving grades K–12 within Lowell School District 71, with total listed enrollment of about 1,038 students. The district as a whole ranks 58th of 141 in Oregon, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars, but that single number hides very large differences among the individual schools.

Lundy Elementary School and Mountain View Academy are the academic bright spots. Both beat district and state averages in all-grade English language arts and math. Lundy posts the city's best results at 54.5% ELA and 39.6% math, ranks 243 of 709 (66th percentile, 3 stars), up from 2 stars the prior year, and has the smallest classes at a 12.2 student-teacher ratio. Mountain View is close behind (52.2% ELA, 35.9% math) and has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the city at 24.8%, well under the district's 32.0% and the state's 33.5%. Science is weaker at both, with Lundy at 24.0% and Mountain View at 21.4%, below the state's 30.6%.

Bridge Charter Academy is by far the largest school, with 546 students, more than the other three combined. Its results are mixed: 11th graders score far above district and state in ELA (61.1%), math (38.9%), and science (64.0%), while all-grade math is 29.8% and 6th-grade math is under 5%. Lowell Junior/Senior High School shows the sharpest split in the data: the highest graduation rate in the city at 90.0%, but the weakest test scores (29.6% ELA, 12.7% math, 10.0% science), a rank of 243 of 271 (10th percentile, 1 star), 8th-grade math under 5%, and the highest chronic absenteeism at 39.2%. Spending and class size do not track outcomes neatly here: Lowell Junior/Senior High School spends the most per student ($21,481), while Mountain View and Bridge report $3,430 each. Grade-level percentages can also swing widely because cohorts are small.