Glide School District 12

Glide School District 12 in Oregon is a small district serving 746 students across three schools: Glide Elementary School (grades K–6, 398 students), Glide Middle School (grades 7–8, 122 students), and Glide High School (grades 9–12, 226 students). The district is rated 117th of 141 Oregon districts, in the 17th percentile with 1 star, and that low district rating appears on each school's record.

Glide High School is the relative bright spot, ranking 163rd of 271 (40th percentile, 2 stars). Its graduation rate of 88.5% is above the state's 83.0%, and its science proficiency of 38.2% beats both the district's 24.0% and the state's 30.6%. Its ELA proficiency, 37.0%, is the highest of the three schools — though still below the state's 43.8% — and its math proficiency of 13.0% is the lowest locally, 19.9 points below state. Glide Elementary School is the largest school and its math proficiency of 23.0% is above the district's 19.4% but below the state's 32.9%. Glide Middle School has the weakest profile: the highest chronic absenteeism at 36.0%, the lowest per-student spending at $16,510, and low math (14.7%) and science (18.0%).

A few patterns matter most for families. Math is a district-wide weakness — all three schools fall below the state's 32.9%, and science splits sharply by level, with high school science above the state while middle (18.0%) and elementary (16.1%) science trail far behind. ELA is below the state everywhere, lowest at the elementary school (30.1%). Chronic absenteeism is close to the state's 33.5% at the elementary and high schools, but higher at the middle school. Spending does not track simply with results: the high school spends the most per student ($19,982) yet has the lowest math proficiency. Poverty data are incomplete — the elementary school reports 84.92% free/reduced lunch, the middle school's value is blank and therefore unknown, and the high school's reported 129.65% is above 100 and should be treated as a data-quality anomaly, not a real rate. Rank trends are also worth watching: the elementary school fell from the 37th to the 20th percentile and the middle school from the 29th to the 22nd, while the high school rebounded to the 40th but remains below its 2023–24 level.