Kings Valley Charter School

Kings Valley Charter School is a small alternative K–12 charter school in Philomath, Oregon, serving 193 students as part of Philomath School District 17J, which ranks 75th of 141 Oregon districts. Because the school covers a broad grade span with a small enrollment, many reported percentages — especially graduation rates and grade-level test scores — are based on tiny cohorts and can swing sharply from year to year. Its free/reduced-lunch rate has also risen steeply, from 37.75% in 2022–23 to 74.61% in 2024–25, which is important context for reading attendance, graduation, and test-score results.

The 2024–25 graduation rate of 85.7% is above Oregon's 83.0% and a sharp rebound from 50.0% in 2023–24, though it trails Eddyville Charter School (92.3%) and Dallas Community Charter (100.0%) and leads Philomath Academy (69.2%). Chronic absenteeism improved to 44.0%, better than Philomath Academy's 63.1% but well above Eddyville's 32.1% and Dallas's 10.0%, and still higher than district and state levels. In 2025–26 testing, all-grade ELA proficiency was 32.7% — the second-highest among these nearby alternative charters, ahead of Eddyville (29.7%) and Philomath Academy (25.0%) but behind Dallas (46.7%).

Math and science are the clearest red flags: all-grade math proficiency was 7.3% and science 8.6%, the lowest of the comparison schools and roughly 25 points below district and state. ELA is comparatively stronger in grades 3–4 but drops noticeably in grades 5–8, and the state suppressed 11th-grade results, so high-school readiness cannot be assessed from the data. Spending of $6,638 per student and a 15.1 student–teacher ratio sit in the middle of this peer group, and Dallas posts stronger outcomes with lower spending, suggesting money and class size alone do not explain results. The takeaway for families: encouraging graduation trends and relative ELA strength, with real work still needed on attendance, math, science, and middle-grade reading.