Summary:
Elementary schools in South Umpqua School District 19 — a small southern Oregon district that ranks 96th of 141 districts statewide, at the 32nd percentile — consist of three schools serving about 700 students: Myrtle Creek Elementary School (PK–5, 264 students), Tri City Elementary School (PK–5, 251 students), and Canyonville School (K–8, 185 students). All three serve a high-poverty population, with free/reduced-lunch rates clustered between 81.08% and 82.87%.
Canyonville School has the strongest overall profile: the best 2025–2026 rank (368th of 709, the 48th percentile, 2 stars), the lowest chronic absenteeism at 25.1% (versus the district's 40.2% and the state's 33.5%), the best all-grades ELA (43.8%, matching the state) and science (27.0%), the lowest student-teacher ratio (13.2), and the highest per-student spending ($17,235). Its all-grades math, however, is the lowest of the three at 26.6%. Myrtle Creek Elementary School is the most improved, climbing from the 8th to the 35th percentile and from 0 to 2 stars in two years, with exceptional Grade 3 results (55.9% ELA, 61.8% math) but weak Grade 5 and science results (14.3%). Tri City Elementary School is the math and stability standout, with the highest all-grades math (32.5%), Grade 4 math at 50%, and 2 stars in each of the past three years, though its Grade 3 scores (28.3% ELA, 26.1% math) lag well behind.
For parents, the pattern is consistent: all three schools beat the district average in ELA and math, and all three have lower chronic absenteeism than both the district and the state. Against the state, though, only Canyonville matches the ELA average, and no school reaches the state in all-grades math or science. Grade-level results vary sharply, so a school's overall average can hide real strengths and gaps.
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