Summary:
Yoncalla, Oregon is a small rural community served by just two public schools — Yoncalla Elementary School (grades K–8, 175 students) and Yoncalla High School (grades 9–12, 76 students) — both part of Yoncalla School District 32, with 251 students total. There is no separately reported middle school; the elementary building covers kindergarten through eighth grade. The district ranks 126th of 141 Oregon districts, in the 11th percentile with a 1-star rating.
Comparing the two schools, Yoncalla High School shows stronger operational indicators. Its chronic absenteeism is 26.5%, below the district's 35.2% and the state's 33.5%, while the elementary school's 38.8% is above both. The high school also has a lower student-teacher ratio (10.7 vs 14.5) and much higher per-student spending ($36,952 vs $24,085). However, its test scores are suppressed by the state, so its academic performance cannot be judged from this data; the one available outcome, graduation rate, is 74.1% versus Oregon's 83.0%. At the elementary school, all-grade proficiency trails the state: ELA 25.3% vs 43.8%, math 14.9% vs 32.9%, and science 11.1% vs 30.6%. Its latest rank history is 691st of 709 schools, in the 3rd percentile with 0 stars.
There are bright spots at the elementary level: 7th-grade ELA is 66.7% proficient against a state average of 45.3%, 8th-grade science is 30% versus 27.7%, and 7th-grade math is 33.3%, matching the state. But 5th-grade math and science are reported as under 5%, and grades 4 through 6 also lag well behind state averages. Because grade cohorts are small, percentages can swing widely from year to year. Families should also know that the district's free/reduced-lunch figures exceed 100%, making them unusable, and that high school test results are unknown rather than zero.
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