Athena-Weston School District 29RJ

Schools in Athena-Weston School District 29RJ comprise three schools serving about 484 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in a small rural Oregon district: Athena Elementary School (PK–4, 124 students), Weston Middle School (5–8, 187 students), and Weston-McEwen High School (9–12, 173 students), with no alternative schools. The district is rated 40th of 141 Oregon districts — the 72nd percentile — with 4 stars, and all three schools serve a similarly high-poverty population, with free/reduced lunch rates between 74.19% and 74.57%.

Weston Middle School is the district's academic anchor: ELA proficiency is 52.4% and math 35.9%, both above district and state, and chronic absenteeism of 17.2% is far below the district's 27.8% and the state's 33.5%. Its rank has been stable for three years at about the 68th percentile with 3 stars. Athena Elementary School stands out in math at 40.8%, well above the state's 32.9%, and has the district's smallest classes with a student-teacher ratio of 9.5 and absenteeism of 20.8%. Its third-grade math proficiency of 48.3% exceeds the state's 41.3%, though fourth-grade math is weaker at 36.2%.

Weston-McEwen High School is a split picture. Its graduation rate of 95.2% is far above the state's 83.0%, but math proficiency is 21.6% and science 27.0%, both below district and state, and chronic absenteeism of 44.7% is the highest in the district — more than double the middle school's rate. Science is a relative weakness district-wide at 28.2%, below the state's 30.6%, and eighth grade at the middle school — 41.9% ELA, 29.0% math, 21.9% science — may signal a transition weak point. Spending does not simply track outcomes: the high school spends the most per student ($25,468) and the middle school the least ($21,394).