Summary:
The city of Powers, Oregon is home to two small public schools: Powers Elementary School and Powers High School, both serving students in the Powers School District 31. These schools have faced significant academic challenges, with consistently low statewide rankings, well below-average test scores, and high rates of chronic absenteeism.
Powers Elementary School has a small enrollment of just 63 students and has ranked in the bottom 10-20% of Oregon elementary schools in recent years. The school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts and Math are 15-25 percentage points lower than the state average, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 34.3% is much higher than the state norm. Additionally, the school has an extremely high free/reduced lunch rate of 84.13%, indicating a high-poverty student population.
Similarly, Powers High School, with an enrollment of 54 students, has struggled with inconsistent statewide rankings, ranging from the bottom 1% to the top 10% of Oregon high schools in recent years. The school's four-year graduation rate of 81.8% is slightly below the state average, and it also faces a chronic absenteeism rate of 34.3%, matching the elementary school. While the high school's free/reduced lunch rate of 68.52% is lower than the elementary school, it still reflects a high-poverty student population.
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