Summary:
Mount Angel, Oregon is a small city with four public schools serving roughly 987 students across grades K–12, split between two districts: Mt Angel School District 91, which runs three schools, and Silver Falls School District 4J, which runs one. The city has two elementary schools — St Marys Public School (K–5) and Butte Creek Elementary School (K–8) — plus Mt Angel Middle School (6–8) and John F Kennedy High School (9–12). Encouragingly, all four schools have chronic absenteeism below the state rate of 33.5%.
The strongest results are at the secondary level. John F Kennedy High School ranks 31 of 271 high schools statewide (89th percentile, 4 stars), with a 90.0% graduation rate versus the state's 83.0% and English Language Arts proficiency of 74.4% against the state's 43.8%. Mt Angel Middle School is the clearest improvement story: its percentile rose from 58th to 73rd to 80th over three years, earning 4 stars, with ELA at 64.7% and math at 39.1%, both above state averages, and the lowest absenteeism in the city at 18.5%.
The elementary picture is more mixed. St Marys Public School is the clear concern, ranked 550 of 709 (22nd percentile, 1 star), with ELA and math both at 29.8% and science at just 8.3% — far below the state's 30.6% — alongside the city's highest free/reduced lunch rate. Butte Creek Elementary School is improving (60th percentile, 3 stars) with ELA at 49.3% and math at 35.5%, but its upper-grade math is weak, including 6th-grade math at 20.0% and 8th-grade math at 17.6%, and it has the highest student-teacher ratio in the city at 22.8. Notably, the two high-poverty secondary schools outperform the state, showing that poverty level alone does not determine results.
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