Summary:
Culver Elementary School is the only elementary school in Culver School District 4, serving grades K–5 to 262 students in Culver, Oregon, and since it is the only school serving grades 3–5 in the district, district grade-level scores match the school's scores exactly. The district overall ranks 115th of 141 in Oregon, at the 18th percentile with 1 star, while the school itself sits at the 34th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026. Available data includes OSAS proficiency for 2025–2026 and chronic absenteeism, free/reduced lunch, per-student spending, and student-teacher ratio for 2024–2025, along with three years of rank history.
Its clearest strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 24.6% in 2024–2025, better than the district's 28.3% and well below Oregon's 33.5% — about 1 in 4 students chronically absent versus about 1 in 3 statewide. The school also outperforms its own district in math (26.1% versus 20.1%) and science (23.1% versus 18.2%), and 3rd grade ELA (41.9%) is essentially at the state mark of 41.5%. Context matters here: 69.85% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $18,838, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.8, figures offered as background rather than evaluation.
Academically, the school trails Oregon in every all-grade subject. ELA was 40.3%, below both the district's 47.5% and the state's 43.8%; math was 26.1% versus 32.9% statewide; and science was 23.1% versus 30.6%. Grade-level math is consistently weaker than state in 3rd grade (32.3% vs. 41.3%), 4th grade (25.0% vs. 38.9% — the largest gap at 13.9 points), and 5th grade (23.1% vs. 32.4%), and 5th grade ELA (38.5% vs. 47.1%) shows an 8.6-point gap. Momentum is also negative: after a 3-star, 50th-percentile year in 2024–2025, the school fell to 2 stars and the 34th percentile in 2025–2026.
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