Sunset Primary School

Sunset Primary School is a PK–5 elementary school of about 375 students in West Linn, Oregon, part of the West Linn-Wilsonville School District 3J, a district ranked 7th of 141 in Oregon. That is a strong setting, and Sunset Primary School holds its own within it.

Academically, Sunset is a top-12% school statewide: it has ranked 84th, 88th, 88th, and 88th of roughly 706–710 Oregon elementaries over the four most recent years (88th percentile, 4 stars each year) — an unusual level of stability. In 2025-26, 66.1% of students met English language arts standards and 56.7% met math standards, compared with 43.8% and 32.9% statewide. Among its West Linn neighbors, Sunset sits in the middle of an exceptionally strong cluster: roughly tied with Willamette Primary School in ELA and Trillium Creek Primary School in science, ahead of Bolton Primary School in ELA and math, but behind Cedaroak Park Primary School in all three subjects (66.1% vs. 73.4% ELA; 56.7% vs. 63.0% math; 43.1% vs. 59.5% science). Science is Sunset's relative soft spot — the one subject where it trails its own district — while 3rd grade is its strongest cohort.

Day to day, Sunset compares well: chronic absenteeism of 20.3% is below both the district (25.9%) and state (33.5%), and its 16.5 student-teacher ratio beats Trillium Creek and Willamette, at a per-student cost ($18,616) that trails most neighbors. Female students rank at the 91st percentile statewide versus 80th for male students, and special education students at the 83rd percentile. The low-SES subgroup ranks at the 33rd percentile, but note that Sunset's free/reduced-lunch rate jumped from 19.15% to 44.53% in a single year while nearby schools show nearly identical rates — a sign that eligibility is being counted differently, so that comparison should be read cautiously.