Summary:
Newport, Oregon has five schools in the Lincoln County School District — two elementary, one middle, and two high schools — serving about 1,731 students in a high-poverty coastal community. Yaquina View Elementary (grades K–2, 264 students) and Sam Case Elementary (grades 3–5, 353) cover the elementary years, Newport Middle School (grades 6–8, 426) serves the middle grades, Newport High School (grades 9–12, 669) is the main high school, and Compass School (grades 6–12, just 19 students) is a tiny program. The district itself ranks 113th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 20th percentile with 1 star, so context matters when reading any single school's results.
Newport High School is the academic anchor: 96th of 271 high schools, 65th percentile, 3 stars, with a 92.4% graduation rate above the district's 88.1% and the state's 83.0%. Its ELA (50.7%) and science (43.4%) beat state figures of 43.8% and 30.6%, but math is only 20.4%, barely above the district and far below the state's 32.9%. Sam Case Elementary has the city's best attendance (26.2% chronic absenteeism versus 39.1% district and 33.5% state), math of 30.0%, and improved from 1 star to 2 stars. Newport Middle School has the weakest current profile: 283rd of 371, 24th percentile, 1 star, with ELA 32.0%, math 20.1%, and science 16.1%.
Math is the citywide weakness, and science is sharply split, with strong high school results alongside low middle-grade scores of 16.1% and 17.0%. Compass School reports the highest math (58.8%) but also a 5.6% graduation rate, 43.8% chronic absenteeism, and many suppressed values — with only 19 students, these figures swing easily and should not be compared directly to larger schools. Yaquina View Elementary has no current test scores because it serves K–2, though it has the highest per-student spending ($23,035) and a 90.53% free/reduced-lunch rate. Poverty is high everywhere it is reported (about 90–91.6%), yet attendance at several schools beats the district.
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