Teach-NW

Teach-NW is an alternative public school serving grades K–12 at 101 W 10th Ave in Eugene, Oregon, with 655 students — the largest enrollment in this comparison group — and it is administered by Marcola School District 79J, a small district that ranks mid-pack among Oregon's 141 districts, rather than by a Eugene-based district.

On the measures it reports, Teach-NW's academic results are the strongest in this comparison set. In the most recent state testing, 68.3% of students were proficient in English language arts, 49.2% in math, and 57.7% in science — all well above Oregon's 43.8%, 32.9%, and 30.6%. Those scores also beat the two comparable alternative schools, Academy for Character Education and Bridge Charter Academy, on all three subjects. Attendance is an even bigger outlier: chronic absenteeism was 5.3% in 2023–24, roughly one-sixth of the state's 34.3%, improving sharply from 20.3% in 2020–21. The 2024–25 school-level absenteeism figure is suppressed by the state.

The weak spot is completion. Teach-NW's graduation rate was 61.0% in 2024–25 against 83.0% statewide, and it has stalled in the low 60s after climbing from 50% during the pandemic years. Academy for Character Education shows the opposite profile, graduating 95.5% while scoring lower on every proficiency measure. Closer to home there is no usable comparison: Lane School (1.7 miles) and LESD Life Skills (3.2 miles), both Lane Education Service District programs, report no graduation, testing, spending, or staffing data. Teach-NW also spends far less per student — $3,615 — and runs a 31:1 student–teacher ratio. Note that 11th-grade results are suppressed in all three subjects, so how well graduates are prepared cannot be checked from public data.