Summary:
Culver School District 4 is a small Oregon district with three schools serving about 653 students: Culver Elementary School (K–5, 262 students), Culver Middle School (6–8, 162 students), and Culver High School (9–12, 229 students). There is no alternative school in the district. Districtwide, Culver School District 4 ranks 115th of 141 Oregon districts — the 18th percentile, with 1 star. Poverty is high and consistent: free/reduced lunch rates run about 69%–71% at every school, so all three serve a high-poverty population.
The clearest academic bright spot is Culver Middle School, where English language arts proficiency is 55.3%, above both the district (47.5%) and the state (43.8%). All three tested grades beat state ELA averages, and the school has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 21.7%, versus 28.3% districtwide and 33.5% statewide. Culver Elementary School sits in the middle: its absenteeism (24.6%) is better than the state's, and its math score (26.1%) leads the district though it trails the state (32.9%). Culver High School graduates 94.8% of its students, well above Oregon's 83.0%.
Most other results are concerning. Math is weak districtwide (20.1% vs. 32.9% statewide), and the middle school's 14.2% is especially low. Science trails the state at every school, and the high school's 5.7% is the single widest gap in the data. Culver High's ranking has slid to the 5th percentile with 0 stars, down from the 48th percentile in 2022–2023, and its chronic absenteeism (37.4%) is the district's highest. High school math is suppressed by the state, so it cannot be evaluated here. The high school also spends the most per student ($21,630) while carrying the highest student-teacher ratio (16.6).
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