Summary:
Harney County School District 4 serves just two schools in rural Crane, Oregon — Crane Elementary School, a K–8 building with 186 students, and Oregon Family School, a K–12 alternative school with 919 students that accounts for 83% of the district's 1,105 total enrollment. Both records share the same Crane street address, and the 5-star rating and 3rd-of-141 rank shown on both are district-level distinctions rather than school-level ratings.
Crane Elementary is the academic anchor. Its students exceed the state average in every reported subject and every grade level — ELA 68.7% against 43.8% statewide, math 59.9% against 32.9%, and science 61.1% against 30.6% — and it ranks 95th of 709 Oregon elementary schools (87th percentile, 4 stars), its best position in three years. About 67% of its students qualify for free or reduced lunch, yet it still outranks roughly 87% of elementary schools statewide. Its relative weak spot is attendance: chronic absenteeism of 28.8% beats the state's 33.5% but trails the district's 22.1%.
Oregon Family School presents a mixed picture. It trails the state in ELA (33.3% vs. 43.8%) and math (18.2% vs. 32.9%), but its 88.0% graduation rate beats the state's 83.0%, and it has the best attendance in the district at 20.7% chronic absenteeism. Its science result and all of its grade-level results are suppressed — unknown, not zero. Two cautions for parents: district test-score averages reflect Crane Elementary alone rather than the whole district, and Oregon Family's $343 per-student spending figure is an outlier that should not be compared at face value to Crane's $22,019.
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