Summary:
Zip code 97002 is served by four public schools — North Marion High School (grades 9–12, 564 students), North Marion Middle School (grades 6–8, 410 students), North Marion Intermediate School (grades 3–5, 345 students), and North Marion Primary School (grades PK–2, 285 students) — all belonging to North Marion School District 15, which enrolls 1,604 students here and ranks in the bottom 6% of Oregon districts.
Among the three schools with state test results, the Intermediate School is the relative bright spot: 30.4% of students are proficient in English language arts, 21.3% in math, and 19.3% in science, the best in the zip and above the district average in all three subjects. Even so, it still trails statewide averages. The Primary School has no test scores or ranking in this data because it serves PK–2, but it has the area’s most favorable attendance and resources — the lowest chronic absenteeism (30.1%), smallest classes (13.5 students per teacher), and highest per-student spending ($22,918).
The High School and Middle School carry the biggest warning signs. The High School has the zip’s lowest math proficiency (6.8%) and highest chronic absenteeism (37.0%), and its graduation rate of 73.9% trails the state’s 83.0%. The Middle School has the lowest science proficiency (11.0%), the largest classes (17.8 students per teacher), the lowest per-student spending ($18,921), and fell from 2 stars to 1 star this year. Absenteeism rises with grade level, and poverty is uniformly high: every school’s free/reduced lunch rate is above 86%.
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