Summary:
Woodburn School District 103 serves roughly 5,220 students across nine schools — five elementary, two middle, and two high schools spanning grades K–12 — and ranks 139th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 1st percentile with 0 stars. Proficiency trails the state across the board: district ELA is 19.7% versus 43.8% statewide, math is 9.4% versus 32.9%, and science is 11.3% versus 30.6%. All schools serve a high-poverty population, with free/reduced lunch rates between 70.87% and 78.77%, so poverty does not explain the wide differences between schools here.
Woodburn Arthur Academy is the district's clear bright spot, posting the highest ELA (35.2%), math (22.5%), and science (33.3%) proficiency, with science above the state average of 30.6%. It does so while spending the least per student ($9,225) and holding the lowest student-teacher ratio (12.3). Woodburn High School, the largest school at 1,606 students, has the district's highest graduation rate at 84.3% — above both district (77.6%) and state (83.0%) — but math proficiency is under 5%. Woodburn Success, a small school of 103 students, faces the most severe challenges: 80.2% chronic absenteeism, a 59.5% graduation rate, 5.9% ELA, math and science under 5%, and the district's highest spending at $22,591 per student.
The remaining schools rank near the bottom of Oregon: Heritage Elementary is the strongest district-run elementary (669 of 709), followed by Valor Middle School, French Prairie Middle School, Lincoln Elementary School, Washington Elementary School, and Nellie Muir Elementary School. Notably, Washington (26.9%) and Nellie Muir (28.1%) have the district's lowest absenteeism yet remain among the lowest performers. Math is the deepest weakness, and middle school science is critically low (5.2% and 6.9% versus 27.7% statewide in 8th grade). Bright spots are narrow but real: Arthur Academy's 5th grade ELA is 52.6% versus 47.1% statewide.
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