Ontario School District 8C

Ontario School District 8C in Ontario, Oregon serves about 2,170 students across five schools spanning kindergarten through 12th grade: May Roberts Primary School (K–1), Aiken Elementary School (2–3), Alameda Intermediate School (4–5), Ontario Middle School (6–8), and Ontario High School (9–12). The district is ranked 118th of 141 in Oregon, at the 16th percentile with a 1-star district rating.

Alameda Intermediate School is the academic bright spot among tested schools, with the highest all-grades ELA proficiency at 39.9% and math at 27.7%, above the district in ELA, math, and science, plus chronic absenteeism of 15.6%. Ontario Middle School is the highest-ranked school at the 35th percentile with 2 stars, and its 7th-grade math of 34.8% edges above the state's 33.3%. Ontario High School is more mixed: its graduation rate of 88.8% tops both district and state, yet math proficiency is under 5%, ELA is 27.7%, and chronic absenteeism is the district's highest at 26.6%. Aiken Elementary School has an acute ELA weakness at 13.8%, versus the district's 33.2% and the state's 43.8%.

District-wide, chronic absenteeism is 18.7%, well below the state's 33.5%, and every school except the high school falls below the district average. Science is the weakest subject everywhere: district proficiency is 17.4% against the state's 30.6%. Free/reduced lunch is reported at roughly 100% or slightly above at every school, indicating pervasive economic disadvantage. May Roberts Primary School has the lowest student-teacher ratio (14.3) and highest per-student spending ($24,906), while Ontario High School has the highest ratio (17.7) and lowest spending ($22,143), showing resources do not track neatly with outcomes.