Summary
Hillside Elementary is a K–5 school at 185 E Main St in Eagle Point, Oregon, serving 401 students in Eagle Point School District 9 — a mid-sized elementary for the area. It is at its lowest point in a decade: 640th of 709 Oregon elementary schools, 10th percentile, with a 0-star rating for the first time. The district itself ranks 112th of 141 statewide, which sets a challenging context but does not fully explain the school's results.
The most useful comparison is right next door. Eagle Rock Elementary School, 0.95 miles away in the same town and district, has the identical 17.4-to-1 student–teacher ratio, similar per-pupil spending ($17,323 versus $17,792), and a higher share of low-income students — yet it ranks in the 55th percentile against Hillside's 10th, with roughly double the proficiency rates in reading, math, and science. That is a 45-percentile-point gap between two buildings with comparable resources. Among ten nearby schools, only Table Rock Elementary, the other Eagle Point campus, ranks lower.
Inside the school, math (24.2%) sits at district parity and 4th grade math (31.1%) is the closest any subject comes to state levels. Reading is the sharper gap: 20.2% in English language arts, 12.6 points below the district, while science (10.1%) is less than half the district rate. Chronic absenteeism has climbed from the low 20s to 32.6%, erasing an advantage Hillside once held over the state. Per-pupil spending rose 9% in a year, but class sizes grew from 15.0 to 17.4 students per teacher — suggesting the constraint is instructional practice, not budget.
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