Summary:
Grants Pass School District 7 serves roughly 5,381 students across 10 schools — six elementary, two middle, and two high schools — in southern Oregon. The district holds a 4-star rating and ranks 29th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 79th percentile. Its proficiency rates beat the state in all three tested subjects: ELA 50.9% vs. 43.8%, math 36.1% vs. 32.9%, and science 36.5% vs. 30.6%. That is a strong result for a district where free/reduced lunch rates run 69.62% to 74.31% at every school. Chronic absenteeism averages about 30.7%, slightly below the district's 31.8% and the state's 33.5%.
Four schools are 4-star. Grants Pass High School, the largest at 1,658 students, posts a 96.2% graduation rate and 58% ELA, both well above district and state. Riverside Elementary School has the top elementary ELA (56.8%) and science (44.4%) results, including a 5th-grade ELA score of 75.4%, the highest single result in the data. Redwood Elementary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the district at 19.4% and the highest elementary math score at 45.7%. South Middle School improved from 56th percentile/3 stars to 73rd percentile/4 stars, with 7th-grade math at 49.2%, while North Middle School stays steadily 4-star with ELA 52.5% and science 37.2%.
The clear outlier is Gladiola High School, the district's only 1-star school and its smallest at 158 students: a 50.0% graduation rate, 53.7% chronic absenteeism, 35.1% ELA, 18.7% science, and math under 5%. Its poverty and spending levels resemble other schools, so the outcome gap stands out. Elsewhere, math is a district bright spot — five of six elementaries score above both district and state — and per-student spending and class size show no simple link to results.
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