Summary:
Ashland School District 5 serves about 2,313 students across 6 schools in southern Oregon: 4 elementary schools (one of which, TRAILS Outdoor School, spans K–8), 1 middle school, and 1 high school. It is ranked 4th of 141 Oregon districts, in the 97th percentile with 5 stars, and every school is rated 4 or 5 stars. All six schools score above the state average in ELA, math, and science, and even the lowest-ranked school sits at the 71st percentile statewide.
Bellview Elementary School is the academic flagship, ranking 26th of 709 elementary schools (96th percentile, 5 stars) with the district's top all-grade results: 76.6% in ELA, 70.2% in math, and 69.8% in science. Helman Elementary School (70th of 709, 90th percentile, 5 stars) combines strong ELA (70.5%) and math (61.5%) with the district's lowest chronic absenteeism, 12.0%, versus the district's 29.5%. Ashland Middle School is a stable performer at the 89th percentile (4 stars), and Walker Elementary School (86th percentile, 4 stars) stands out for science at 55.0%.
Ashland High School has a strong graduation rate of 87.2%, above the state's 83.0%, but its all-grade math proficiency of 40.4% is the lowest in the district, 13.1 points below the district average. TRAILS Outdoor School is the smallest and most uneven: it ranks 208th of 709 (71st percentile, 4 stars) and posts standout 4th-grade ELA at 88.2% but very low 5th-grade science at 13.3%; its 3rd-grade ELA and math results are suppressed by the state, so they are unknown rather than weak. Poverty rates are similar across schools (61.15% to 66.53% FRPL), yet outcomes vary widely, so school-level differences are not simply explained by measured poverty.
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