Summary:
The city of Yamhill, Oregon is served by two schools — Yamhill Carlton Intermediate School (grades 4–8, 369 students) and Yamhill Carlton High School (grades 9–12, 279 students) — both part of Yamhill Carlton School District 1, for a combined enrollment of 648 students. The area listing shows no elementary or alternative schools, meaning the youngest learners (grades K–3) are served by a district campus outside the city.
The High School is the stronger of the two in reading: 51.0% of students are proficient in English language arts against 43.8% statewide, and its 84.4% graduation rate edges the state's 83.0%. But it trails the state badly in math (18.8% vs. 32.9%) and science (20.8% vs. 30.6%), and after back-to-back 4-star years it fell to 2 stars in 2025–26, dropping from 63rd of 270 to 158th of 271.
The Intermediate School splits sharply by grade. Its 4th and 5th grade reading results sit at or above the state line (45.1% and 50.8%), but grades 6–8 fall 7–8 points below it, and the 8th grade numbers are the most urgent in the data — 9.7% proficient in math and 8.1% in science. Chronic absenteeism at both schools is better than the state (24.2% and 31.3% vs. 33.5%), and the two serve nearly identical low-income populations (about 50% free/reduced lunch), yet the High School spends $20,849 per student versus $14,384 at the Intermediate. The key thing to watch is how that 8th grade class performs once it reaches the High School.
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