Elementary Schools in Seaside School District 10

Elementary schools in Seaside School District 10 consist of just two K–5 campuses — Pacific Ridge Elementary School and The Cannon Beach Academy — together serving 594 students. Enrollment is highly uneven: Pacific Ridge Elementary School enrolls 557 students (about 93.8% of the elementary total), while The Cannon Beach Academy has 37 students (about 6.2%). The district overall ranks 99th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 30th percentile with 2 stars, and its district-level math and science scores sit below the state average.

The two schools have very different academic profiles. The Cannon Beach Academy posts the highest proficiency in the data: 66.7% in English Language Arts (vs. 41.6% district and 43.8% state) and 53.3% in math (vs. 26.9% district and 32.9% state). Those gaps are large, but the school is tiny and its grade-level and science results are suppressed, so it is impossible to tell whether the strong scores are broad-based. Pacific Ridge Elementary School is near state in ELA (44.1% vs. 43.8%) and math (33.9% vs. 32.9%), but science is a clear relative weakness at 23.0% vs. 30.6% statewide. Its 4th grade ELA stands out at 54.7%, 11.2 points above state, while 5th grade lags in ELA (38.4% vs. 47.1%), math (26.5% vs. 32.4%) and science (23.0% vs. 30.8%).

Attendance and resources also differ sharply. Chronic absenteeism is 33.6% at Pacific Ridge Elementary School — roughly even with the state's 33.5% and 6.0 points below the district's 39.6% — and 36.8% at The Cannon Beach Academy, which is below district but 3.3 points above state. Pacific Ridge Elementary School reports $24,616 per student and a student-teacher ratio of 11.1, along with 86% free/reduced lunch; The Cannon Beach Academy reports $5,167 per student and a ratio of 29.3, about 2.6 times higher, with no free/reduced-lunch rate provided. Pacific Ridge's own rank history is volatile, moving between 2 and 3 stars. Overall, Pacific Ridge's results are fully reported and near state average, while The Cannon Beach Academy's standout scores remain hard to verify.