Summary
Eagle Charter School is a small K–5 elementary school at 999A Locust Ave NE in Salem, Oregon, serving about 150 students — far fewer than any of the ten nearby Salem-Keizer schools, which enroll 263–498 each.
Eagle's academic results stand out sharply against its neighbors and the state. In 2025–26, 69.3% of students met standards in English Language Arts, 56.0% in math, and 64.0% in science, compared with 43.8%, 32.9%, and 30.6% statewide and 16.1–38.7%, 8.9–33.6%, and under 5%–40.7% at nearby schools. Even Eagle's weakest subject, math, is 22 points above the best math result among neighbors. Results also rise by grade: 5th-grade ELA reaches 84%, about 37 points above the state. Attendance reinforces this — chronic absenteeism was 14.4% in 2024–25 versus 33.5% statewide, and the best-attending nearby school (Grant Community School, 32.4%) still has more than double Eagle's rate. Eagle has climbed steadily over a decade, from the 17th percentile of Oregon elementary schools in 2014–15 to the 90th in 2025–26, including four straight years in the 80th–90th band.
A few things are worth keeping in mind. Eagle's students are considerably less likely to be economically disadvantaged — 64.7% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch versus 87.7–90.8% at every nearby school — and as an open-enrollment charter, its families choose it, which can shape results. With only about 150 students, each grade has roughly 25–30 children, so a handful of students can move a percentage noticeably. Data coverage is also uneven: test scores run through 2025–26, while attendance, lunch, and class-size figures stop at 2024–25, and subgroup results are sparser. Notably, Eagle has the largest classes in its comparison group (21.1 students per teacher) while posting the group's top proficiency in all three subjects, and its low-income students ranked at the 96th percentile in 2022–23 — the strongest subgroup result in the data — suggesting the outcomes are not simply a matter of demographics.
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