Summary:
Marcola, Oregon has just 2 schools — Marcola Elementary School (PK–6, 139 students) and Mohawk High School (7–12, 133 students) — both in Marcola School District 79J and sharing one campus at 38300 Wendling Rd, together serving about 272 students in a single PK–12 system. The district itself is mid-pack statewide, ranked 72nd of 141 (49th percentile) with 2 stars.
The two schools stand out in very different ways. Mohawk High's graduation rate is a clear strength at 92.0%, above the district's 72.7% and the state's 83.0%. But its all-grade proficiency is very low — 18.9% in ELA, 7.7% in Math, and under 5% in Science — and its rank history is extremely volatile, falling from 26th of 270 (90th percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–25 to 221st of 271 (18th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–26. Marcola Elementary shows the opposite pattern by grade: its 3rd grade is a bright spot at 64.3% ELA and 60% Math, far above the state's 41.5% and 41.3%, while 6th grade drops to 10.5% ELA and 5.3% Math. Its 5th grade ELA and Math figures are suppressed by the state, so the middle-grade picture is incomplete.
Both schools keep chronic absenteeism below Oregon's 33.5%, at 18.4% for the elementary school and 24.2% for the high school, though the district-level figure of 8.4% is lower than both. The high school serves a higher free/reduced lunch share (81.2% vs. 61.87%), spends more per pupil ($28,677 vs. $19,005), and has a smaller student-teacher ratio (12.6 vs. 15.6), yet its proficiency is lower. With only 139 and 133 students, single-year swings — especially Mohawk High's 5-star to 1-star change — should be read with caution rather than as settled trends.
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