Summary:
Nestucca Valley School District 101J is a small, high-poverty two-school district in rural Oregon serving 498 students across elementary and middle grades at one campus and high school grades at another. The district as a whole is rated 1 star and sits at the 13th percentile of Oregon districts, a ranking that hides a big split between its two schools.
Nestucca High School (grades 9–12, 162 students) is the bright spot: 3 stars and the 50th percentile of Oregon high schools, with English Language Arts proficiency of 59.1% (above the district's 29% and the state's 43.8%) and a 97.1% graduation rate, far above Oregon's 83.0%. Even so, math is 15.9% (state: 32.9%), science is 24.4% (state: 30.6%), and chronic absenteeism is 42.8% — higher than the district's 36.9% and the state's 33.5%.
Nestucca K8 (PK–8, 336 students) is rated 0 stars at the 8th percentile, with ELA at 23.1%, math at 13.4%, and science at 10.7% — roughly 20 points below state levels in every subject. Fifth grade is the sharpest concern: 5.9% ELA, math under 5%, and science under 5%. Both schools serve similarly high-poverty populations (93.75% and 95.06% free/reduced lunch), so the performance gap is not explained by differing student economics. The high school also spends more per student ($33,012 vs $22,926) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (11.9 vs 17.6), though the data cannot prove those resources caused the outcome differences.
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