Summary:
Amity School District 4J is a small Oregon district with three schools serving grades K–12 — Amity Elementary School (K–5, 320 students), Amity Middle School (6–8, 168 students), and Amity High School (9–12, 258 students) — totaling 746 students. The district is ranked 93rd of 141 in Oregon, placing it in the 34th percentile with a 2-star rating. Free and reduced lunch rates are nearly identical across all three campuses, ranging only from 64.34% to 64.88%, so the academic differences between schools are not driven by large differences in student economic background.
Amity Elementary School is the district's strongest performer — the only 3-star school, ranked 319 of 709 (55th percentile), and the only school above the state average in math (41.7%) and science (34.8%). Its 4th-grade math result of 49.1% is 10.2 points above the state. Amity Middle School is more mixed: 2 stars, 230 of 371 (38th percentile), with 8th-grade ELA at 49.1% (7.6 points above state) but 7th-grade ELA at just 29.2% (16.1 points below state). Amity High School ranks 213 of 271 (21st percentile) with 1 star.
Math and science decline sharply by grade level — math drops from 41.7% at elementary to 23.3% at middle to 13.3% at high, while ELA stays steady near 39–40% everywhere. The high school shows this gap most clearly: it graduates 90.6% of students, above both district and state rates, yet only 13.3% meet math proficiency and 15.2% meet science proficiency. Chronic absenteeism is below Oregon's 33.5% at every school (23.7%, 27.8%, and 26.8%), though about 1 in 4 students is still chronically absent. Notably, the highest-spending school with the smallest classes posts the weakest test results, so spending and class size alone do not explain the pattern.
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