Summary:
Yoncalla School District 32 is a small Oregon district serving roughly 251 students across two schools: Yoncalla Elementary School, which covers kindergarten through 8th grade with 175 students, and Yoncalla High School, which serves grades 9 through 12 with 76 students. There are no middle or alternative schools in the district. At the district level, Yoncalla is rated rank 126 of 141 districts — the 11th percentile — with 1 star.
Yoncalla Elementary School is the district's clearest academic concern. It ranked 691 of 709 schools in 2025–2026 — the 3rd percentile with 0 stars — after 18th percentile in 2023–2024 and 12th percentile in 2024–2025. All-grade proficiency trails the state: ELA 25.3% versus 43.8%, math 14.9% versus 32.9%, and science 11.1% versus 30.6%. Chronic absenteeism is 38.8%, above the district's 35.2% and the state's 33.5%. Results swing widely by grade: 7th grade ELA was 66.7% (state 45.3%), 8th grade science 30% (state 27.7%), and 7th grade math 33.3% (equal to state), while 5th grade ELA was 5.9%, 6th grade ELA 7.7%, and 5th grade math and science were under 5%. With very small grade cohorts, single-grade results should be read with caution.
Yoncalla High School looks stronger in attendance and class size: chronic absenteeism is 26.5%, better than both district and state, and its student-teacher ratio is 10.7 versus 14.5 at the elementary. Its latest rank was 134 of 270 (50th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, though its graduation rate of 74.1% is below the state's 83.0%. Its 2025–2026 OSAS test scores are suppressed by the state, so academic proficiency is unknown, not zero. The high school spends $36,952 per student versus $24,085 at the elementary — about 53.4% more — which may reflect small-school fixed costs rather than a clear academic advantage. Note that reported free/reduced-lunch figures exceed 100% at both schools, a data anomaly.
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