Summary:
Turner, Oregon is a four-school town where every campus — Cascade Senior High School (795 students, grades 9–12), Cascade Junior High School (647, grades 6–8), Turner Elementary School (422, K–5) and Cloverdale Elementary School (208, K–5) — belongs to a single district, Cascade School District 5, which ranks 21st of 141 Oregon districts (85th percentile, four stars), with roughly 2,072 students enrolled across the four buildings.
Comparing the schools to each other: Cloverdale Elementary is the academic standout, with the city's highest math proficiency at 54.7% (21.8 points above the state) and the highest science score at 45.5%, plus the smallest classes at 15.3 students per teacher. Cascade Junior High is the momentum story, climbing from the 69th to the 84th percentile in two years. Cascade Senior High posts the city's best graduation rate at 94.7%, nearly 12 points above the state, but is the only Turner school to lose a star (four to three); because it tests only 11th graders, its 28.8% math figure is best compared with the state's 11th-grade rate of 22.9%, which it exceeds. Turner Elementary beats state and district in every subject, yet its ranking has slipped three years running, from the 84th to the 75th percentile.
Citywide, reading is a clear strength — ELA proficiency spans just 4.8 points across the four schools, while math spans 25.9 points. Attendance is a genuine triumph: every school beats the district's 22.1% and the state's 33.5% chronic absenteeism rates, with the junior high at just 16.9%. Free and reduced lunch rates are nearly identical at all four campuses (about 63.5% to 63.8%), so test-score differences are not explained by student poverty. The trend lines are diverging: the junior high and Cloverdale are rising, while Turner Elementary and the high school are flattening.
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