Yamhill Carlton School District 1

Yamhill Carlton School District 1 is a small Oregon district with three schools — an elementary school serving grades K–4, an intermediate school serving grades 4–8, and a high school serving grades 9–12 — enrolling 924 students combined, and ranked 95th of 141 Oregon districts (33rd percentile, 2 stars). All three schools serve a very similar population, with free/reduced lunch clustered near 50.4%, so differences in results are not explained by differing measured poverty rates across the schools.

Yamhill Carlton High School has the district's strongest English results: 51.0% all-grade ELA proficiency, above the district's 39.1% and the state's 43.8%, plus an 84.4% graduation rate versus 83.0% statewide. However, its math (18.8%) and science (20.8%) lag the state, it has the district's highest chronic absenteeism (31.3%) and highest per-student spending ($20,849), and its rank fell from 4 stars to 2 stars in 2025-2026. Yamhill Carlton Intermediate School posts above-state ELA in grades 4 (45.1%) and 5 (50.8%), yet 8th grade math (9.7%) and science (8.1%) are the lowest values in the entire data set. Yamhill Carlton Elementary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism (22.5%) but 3rd grade ELA of 26.9% and math of 22.8%.

District-wide, proficiency trails the state in every tested subject — ELA 39.1% vs. 43.8%, math 21.7% vs. 32.9%, and science 19.5% vs. 30.6% — with the math and science gaps roughly double the ELA gap. Chronic absenteeism (22.2%) is well below the state's 33.5% at every school. In short: strengths in high school ELA and graduation, and challenges in math and science.