Silver Falls School District 4J

Silver Falls School District 4J serves about 3,651 students across 13 listed schools: 11 elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, located in and around Silverton, Oregon. At the district level, Silver Falls is ranked 28th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 80th percentile with 4 stars, and its results are above the state in ELA (51.3 vs. 43.8), mathematics (37.0 vs. 32.9), and science (40.5 vs. 30.6). The district also reports 90.1% graduation at Silverton High School, above the state's 83.0%, and chronic absenteeism of 30.1%, better than the state's 33.5%. School-level results, however, vary widely.

The strongest standouts are small elementaries. Evergreen Elementary School leads the district in all three subjects (ELA 88.6, math 81.8, science 80.0), has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 7.5% and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 16.8, with just 67 students. Pratum Elementary School is also near the top, and Victor Point Elementary School combines strong, consistent results and recent high ranks with the lowest listed per-student spending at $14,986. Bethany Charter School is solid in ELA and math, and Robert Frost Elementary School posts the district's third-highest science score. Because several of these schools are very small, grade-level scores are often suppressed and should be read cautiously.

Concerns cluster at the secondary level and in a few elementaries. Silverton Middle School is the weakest overall performer, below district and state in all subjects, with especially low 8th-grade results and a declining rank. The Community Roots School has the lowest all-grade math score at 20.6 and a sharp rank decline, while Mark Twain Elementary School has also slipped. At Silverton High, chronic absenteeism is the district's highest at 37.9% even though its rank improved to 61 of 271. Overall, the district is strong, but the gap between its top and bottom schools is wide.