Lundy Elementary School

Lundy Elementary School is a small, rural K–6 school in Lowell, Oregon, serving about 176 students as part of Lowell School District 71. Its most recent statewide standing is the strongest in the ten years shown: 243rd of 709 schools, the 66th percentile, with 3 stars — up from the 25th percentile just three years earlier. That 25 → 51 → 49 → 66 path looks like a genuine turnaround rather than a one-year spike, though the dip in 2024–25 shows the climb hasn't been perfectly steady.

The school's clearest strength is English language arts, where 54.5% of students met standards compared with 43.8% statewide, and math is also above the state (39.6% vs. 32.9%). Science is the exception at 24.0%, below the state's 30.6%. The standout finding is how well Lundy serves its low-income students: roughly three-quarters are economically disadvantaged, and that group ranks in the 96th percentile statewide with 5 stars — far above the school's overall 66th percentile. Class sizes are the smallest of any nearby school, at a 12.2 student–teacher ratio. Regionally, Lundy ranks third of eleven schools in ELA, ahead of Pleasant Hill Elementary School and Mountain View Academy, though Thurston Elementary School and Douglas Gardens Elementary School still score higher.

Two things hold Lundy back. Chronic absenteeism is 35.1% — improved by nearly 14 points in two years, but still above the state (33.5%) and district (32.0%) and the fourth-highest among the comparison schools. Fifth grade is the one cohort struggling across the board, with math at just 12.0% against a state figure of 32.4%. Because Lundy has only about 25 students per grade, single-grade swings can be statistically fragile, so the school's multi-year and subgroup trends are the more reliable signals.