Summary:
Oregon City's 12 schools — six elementary, two middle, three high and one alternative — serve roughly 6,706 students, with 11 of them in Oregon City School District 62, which ranks 35th of 141 districts statewide, while Carus School belongs to Canby School District 86. Oregon City Senior High School is by far the largest campus at 1,944 students — about 29% of all enrollment — while Oregon City Service Learning Academy is the smallest at 111. State all-grades proficiency benchmarks are 43.8% in ELA, 32.9% in math and 30.6% in science; district averages of 45.5%, 33.5% and 32.5% sit just above those marks.
The strongest academic profile belongs to Springwater Environmental Sciences School: 61.9% ELA, 55.9% math and 65.0% science, with science more than double the state average, in a small school of 203. Alliance Charter Academy pairs 60.3% ELA with 5.7% chronic absenteeism, far below the district's 29.6% and the state's 33.5%. John McLoughlin Elementary School is the steadiest comprehensive neighborhood school, at 55.9% ELA, 51.0% math and 16.2% chronic absenteeism. By contrast, Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences slid to the 17th percentile in 2025–26 from the 51st–62nd range, and Service Learning Academy reports a 23.4% graduation rate, 77.3% chronic absenteeism and ELA, math and science all under 5%.
Math is the city's common weak point: even Oregon City Senior High, with a 92.9% graduation rate and 55.9% ELA, manages only 25.6% math. Ten of twelve schools beat the state's chronic absenteeism rate, but that high school's 38.9% is well above it. Poverty alone does not predict outcomes — most district schools report free/reduced lunch near 54%, yet Springwater and John McLoughlin perform well. Mind the gaps: Service Learning's scores are reported only as under 5%, Alliance has no recent rank history, and lunch data is missing for Alliance and Springwater, so some comparisons are directional.
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