Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School

Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School is a 9–12 public high school with 47 students at 139 S Caves Ave in Cave Junction, a small rural town in Josephine County, Oregon, and it belongs to the Three Rivers/Josephine County School District. It is by far the smallest school in this comparison group: nearby Illinois Valley High School enrolls 291 students just 0.76 miles away, while Hidden Valley High School enrolls 522 students about 18.8 miles away in Grants Pass.

For parents, two features stand out. First, resources look very different here: Kalmiopsis spends $8,580 per student, compared with $27,620 at Illinois Valley and $19,328 at Hidden Valley, but it has the smallest classes in the group, with a student–teacher ratio of 11.1 versus 18.1 and 22.2. Second, attendance is the school’s strongest relative result. Its chronic absenteeism rate was 30.0% in 2024–2025—lower than Illinois Valley (40.9%), Hidden Valley (34.6%), the district (37.6%), and the state (33.5%).

The biggest question mark is graduation. Kalmiopsis’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 36.4%, compared with 92.1% at Illinois Valley, 87.7% at Hidden Valley, 71.9% in the district, and 83.0% statewide. This is the only recent year with the school’s own graduation rate in the data. Test scores are more mixed: ELA was 42.9% proficient, close to the state’s 43.8%; science was 26.3%; math was 14.3%, the clear weak spot. At 11th grade, Kalmiopsis beat its district in all three subjects. With only 47 students, a single student can shift percentages substantially—the graduating cohort may be around ten students—so both the graduation gap and the recent ranking jump (from the 2nd to the 34th percentile in one year) should be treated as signals to investigate, not settled verdicts.