Best Public Schools in Seaside, OR

Seaside, Oregon is home to four listed schools — one elementary, one middle, one high school and one alternative PK–12 school — serving a combined 1,520 students across two districts. Three belong to Seaside School District 10: Pacific Ridge Elementary School (K–5, 557 students), Seaside High School (9–12, 489) and Seaside Middle School (6–8, 355). The fourth, Jewell School (PK–12, 119 students), sits in the separate Jewell School District 8. Pacific Ridge is the largest school, and the district enrolls 1,401 students compared with 119 at Jewell.

Academically, Jewell School posts the highest all-grade ELA proficiency (51.4%) and the highest science proficiency (35.0%), both above Oregon's 43.8% and 30.6%. It also has the lowest student-teacher ratio (8.1), the highest per-student spending ($69,324) and a 100% graduation rate, though its math proficiency of 27.8% falls below the state's 32.9%, and its small size and alternative PK–12 status make comparisons cautious. Pacific Ridge Elementary School is the only school above the state in math (33.9%), and its 4th grade ELA of 54.7% stands out, but its science is 23.0%. Seaside High School trails with 35.6% ELA, 14.3% math and 24.2% science, a 79.7% graduation rate and a 1-star rating despite a rising rank percentile. Seaside Middle School has the group's lowest science proficiency, 12.5%.

Chronic absenteeism climbs steadily with grade level in Seaside School District 10 — 33.6% at Pacific Ridge, 40.4% at Seaside Middle and 46.3% at Seaside High — while Jewell is highest overall at 52.7%; all are above Oregon's 33.5%. Math remains the clearest weakness, with district proficiency at 26.9% against the state's 32.9%. Data gaps matter too: many Jewell grade-level scores are suppressed, Seaside Middle's free/reduced-lunch figure is missing, and Seaside High's listed 139.47% is an anomaly rather than a usable percentage. Families weighing these schools should pair proficiency and absenteeism numbers with each school's size and grade range.