Summary
Hudson Park Elementary School is a public K–6 school in Rainier, Oregon, serving 423 students as the elementary school of Rainier School District 13 in the lower-Columbia region, where grade-level proficiency figures are identical to the district's — confirming it is effectively the district's only elementary. It ranks 555th of 709 Oregon elementary schools (22nd percentile, 1 star), in the bottom quarter of the state, and has held 1 star in each of the last seven reported years after earning 2 stars from 2014-15 through 2016-17. The 2024-25 year was its weakest on record at the 10th percentile; 2025-26 brought a 12-point gain.
Compared with schools 10–18 miles away, three metrics stand out as the most extreme in the group: 44.7% chronic absenteeism — more than 11 points above the state's 33.5%, and higher than Lewis & Clark Elementary School, Vernonia Elementary School, McBride Elementary School, Clatskanie Elementary School, Columbia City School, and St Helens Arthur Academy — plus a 19.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio, the thinnest staffing of the comparison group (which runs 11.0 to 17.9), and 88.2% free/reduced lunch eligibility. Math proficiency is 19.7%, well below the state's 32.9%, while ELA (32.4%) and science (20.0%) sit mid-pack. At $19,268 per student, Hudson Park Elementary School outspends Clatskanie and Lewis & Clark yet posts lower ELA results than Clatskanie.
Grade by grade, the school starts near the state line and falls away: 3rd-grade ELA is 44.0%, above the state's 41.5%, but 6th-grade ELA is 20.6% against a state 41.8%, and 5th- and 6th-grade math sit at 12.5% — roughly one student in eight. Bright spots include special education students, who ranked at the 28th percentile in 2024-25, above the school's own standing, and female students (33rd percentile) versus male students (16th percentile). Attendance, class size, and holding onto academic gains from grade to grade look like the levers here rather than budget.
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