Days Creek Charter School

Days Creek Charter School is a small, rural K–12 public school serving about 230 students on a single campus in Days Creek, Oregon, along the Tiller Trail Highway in Douglas County. It is also the only school in Douglas County School District 15, which means this one campus is the community's entire public school system — roughly 18 students per grade.

With no other schools within 20 miles, the clearest yardstick is Oregon overall. The school's graduation rate is 84.6%, slightly above the state's 83.0%, and it has stayed above the state line for five straight years. Chronic absenteeism — students missing a lot of school — has improved dramatically, falling from 45.8% in 2021–22 to 30.1% in 2024–25, and it now beats the state's 33.5%. Academically, math is the strength, running 7.9 points above the state average, with English language arts 3.6 points ahead. Science is the weak spot, 4.6 points behind the state.

Those averages hide big differences by grade. Grades 3, 4, and 8 beat the state in math by 13 to 17 points. Science lags most in grades 5 and 8 (17.6% and 21.1% versus the state's 30.8% and 27.7%), yet 11th-grade science is 42.9% against 33.8% statewide — a genuinely odd split worth asking about. Eighth grade is the puzzle: strong math but weaker reading and science in the same group. Eleventh-grade math, at 21.4%, is the lowest math result in the school. Spending is about $24,969 per student, which largely reflects how expensive it is to run a full K–12 program for 230 students; classes are small, with a 10.3-to-1 student–teacher ratio. Because grades hold only 15–20 students, a few students can swing any percentage.