Summary:
Riddle School District 70 has exactly one elementary school: Riddle Elementary School, which serves grades K–6 and enrolls 168 students at Fifth & Park Sts, Riddle, OR 97469. Because it is the only elementary school in Riddle School District 70, there are no within-district comparisons to make — this one school is the entire elementary system. Its students are high-need: 75% qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the school spends $21,104 per student, with a 12.9:1 student-teacher ratio. For context, the district as a whole ranks 138th of 141 in Oregon, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars.
Academically, the school trails Oregon averages in every tested subject in 2025–2026. All-grade ELA proficiency is 22.9% versus 43.8% statewide, math is 21.9% versus 32.9%, and science is 16% versus 30.6%. The school does outperform the district's all-grade averages in all three subjects, but the district itself sits near the bottom of the state. Looking grade by grade, 6th grade is the clear bright spot: 6th grade math is 29.6% proficient, essentially level with the state's 29.7%, and 6th grade ELA is the school's best ELA result at 37%, just 4.8 points below the state's 41.8%. By contrast, 3rd grade ELA is reported as under 5% proficient, compared with 41.5% statewide — a gap of more than 36 percentage points and a serious early-literacy concern. Fifth grade science (16% vs. 30.8%) and 5th grade math (16% vs. 32.4%) are also roughly half the state rates.
Chronic absenteeism at the school is 31.1%, below Oregon's 33.5% but above the district's 22.1%. On school rankings, the school has held steady at 1 star and around the 18th–19th percentile for three years, with no clear upward trend. Taken together, the picture is a small, high-poverty school with substantial per-student funding whose results remain below state expectations, with 6th grade as its strongest showing and 3rd grade reading, 5th grade math and science, and attendance as the areas most worth watching.
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