Elgin School District 23

Elgin School District 23 is a small, high-poverty Oregon district with just two schools — Stella Mayfield Elementary School (grades PK–6, 204 students) and Elgin High School (grades 7–12, 180 students) — together serving 384 students. There is no separate middle school, so Elgin High School's results include middle-grade scores alongside high school scores. Both campuses report free or reduced-price lunch rates near 73%, and per-student spending tops $21,700 at each. Elgin School District 23 ranks 86th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 39th percentile with 2 stars, and both schools fall below the state average in all-grades English language arts, math, and science.

Stella Mayfield Elementary School's clearest strength is attendance: 20.2% chronic absenteeism, compared with 26.9% for the district and 33.5% for the state. Third- and fifth-grade ELA are both 50%, above the state's 41.5% and 47.1%. Fifth-grade science is 26.7%, above the district's 25.3% but below the state's 30.8%. Math is the main concern: sixth-grade math is 10.3% proficient versus 29.7% statewide, and all-grades math is 24.3%, below both the district (25.3%) and the state (32.9%). The school has held 2 stars for three years, with percentile ranks between 30 and 45.

Elgin High School posts the district's strongest proficiency results: 11th-grade ELA is 54.2% (state 46%), and 7th-grade math is 46.2% (state 33.3%). Its graduation rate, 82.6%, is essentially at Oregon's 83.0%. Attendance is the challenge — chronic absenteeism is 34.6%, worse than the district's 26.9% and slightly above the state's 33.5% — and 11th-grade math is 12.5% versus 22.9% statewide, while 8th-grade math is 21.2% versus 30%. The school ranked 146th of 271, at the 46th percentile, in 2025–2026, after reaching 3 stars and the 52nd percentile the prior year.