Summary:
Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District 66 is a small rural district near Eugene, Oregon, serving roughly 295 students across just two schools: Applegate Elementary School, a K–8 building with about 225 students (roughly three-quarters of enrollment), and Crow High School, grades 9–12, with about 70 students. There is no separate middle school, so Applegate is the district's entire tested population for grades 3–8.
Crow High School is the academic standout: 4 stars, 86th percentile among Oregon high schools, up from 64th percentile two years ago. Its 100% graduation rate beats the state's 83%, 11th-grade math proficiency of 50% is more than double the state's 22.9%, and ELA (61.1 vs. 46) and science (46.2 vs. 33.8) also beat the state. It has the district's lowest student-teacher ratio at 9.5. The caveat is size — with about 18 students per grade, each student is worth roughly 5.5 percentage points, so these results can shift noticeably. Attendance is the weak spot: chronic absenteeism is 37.3%, above the state's 33.5%.
Applegate Elementary School is more modest academically (2 stars, 37th percentile) but posts exceptional attendance — 8.3% chronic absenteeism versus the state's 33.5%. Math is the clear weakness: all six tested grades fall below the state, with the deepest gaps in 3rd grade (16.2 vs. 41.3) and 6th grade (9.7 vs. 29.7). Fifth grade is the bright spot, with ELA of 60.9 (state 47.1) and science of 34.8 (state 30.8) above state, while 8th-grade science drops to 10.0% against the state's 27.7%. Spending is very uneven — $19,936 per student at Applegate versus $43,072 at Crow High — reflecting the high school's tiny enrollment rather than comparable per-pupil rates. One figure, Crow High's free/reduced-lunch rate of 141.43%, is impossible as a percentage and should be treated as a reporting artifact.
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