Summary:
Elgin School District 23 contains a single high school — Elgin High School — a small rural 7–12 building at 1400 Birch in Elgin, Oregon, serving about 180 students, which means school-level and district-level results are nearly identical for families comparing them.
The school's results are genuinely mixed, and they split sharply by grade. Eleventh-grade English is a real strength: 54.2% of students met the state standard versus 46.0% statewide. Seventh-grade math is also strong, at 46.2% versus 33.3% statewide. But 11th-grade math is the opposite, with just 12.5% proficient against 22.9% statewide — the widest gap in the data. Eighth grade is the weakest year across English, math and science. Graduation (82.6%) is essentially level with the state (83.0%), while chronic absenteeism (34.6%) runs above both the state (33.5%) and the district (26.9%), suggesting attendance problems concentrate in grades 7–12.
The most important pattern for parents is math: proficiency falls from 46.2% in 7th grade to 21.2% in 8th and 12.5% in 11th, a steeper drop than the state's. Reading moves the other way, recovering by junior year. Note also that "All Grades" figures blend 7th and 8th grade results with 11th, hiding both the strongest and weakest numbers. Class sizes are small — roughly two dozen students per tested grade — so a single student can shift a proficiency rate about 4 points, and the ranking history (35th, 52nd, 46th percentile over three years) should be read with that in mind. About 72% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and per-student spending is $21,708.
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