Summary:
Brookings-Harbor School District 17C is a small coastal Oregon district serving roughly 1,278 students across three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — with no alternative school in the district. Kalmiopsis Elementary School (K–5, 547 students), Azalea Middle School (6–8, 309 students), and Brookings-Harbor High School (9–12, 422 students) together cover all grades. District-wide, Brookings-Harbor ranks 111th of 141 in Oregon — the 21st percentile, with 1 star — though the individual schools look very different from one another.
Kalmiopsis Elementary School is the academic standout, ranked 356th of 709 (50th percentile, 2 stars) after improving from the 30th percentile in the two prior years. It is the only school in the district above the state in both all-grade ELA (44% vs 43.8%) and math (36.7% vs 32.9%), though it is still below the state in science (23.5% vs 30.6%). At the other end, Azalea Middle School is the lowest performer — 16th percentile, 1 star — with ELA at 29%, math at 17%, and science at 13%. Brookings-Harbor High School posts solid ELA (44.6%) but a severe math weakness: just 9.1% proficiency, far below the district’s 25.5% and the state’s 32.9%. Its rank has slid from the 43rd percentile to the 25th, and its graduation rate of 73.1% trails the state’s 83.0%.
Some context cuts against the low scores: all three schools have chronic absenteeism below the state’s 33.5%, with the high school lowest at 21.3%, and Azalea at 25.2%. Free/reduced lunch rates are high (84.14% to 89.1%) and per-student spending runs from $17,741 to $20,435. Student-teacher ratios range from 16.4 at Kalmiopsis to 18.0 at Azalea. The most consistent district-wide concern is secondary math and science.
Thank you for your feedback!