Summary:
ZIP code 97008 in Beaverton is home to 10 schools educating roughly 6,030 students from kindergarten through 12th grade — six elementary schools (one of them a K–8), three middle schools, and one high school, Southridge High School, which alone enrolls 1,430 students. Every school belongs to Beaverton School District 48J, a district ranked 19th of 141 in Oregon, so these schools are being compared within an unusually strong system. Eight of the ten beat the state in reading and six beat it in math.
Two elementaries stand out. Hiteon Elementary School is the strongest overall performer (reading 58.9, math 53.7, science 43.8) and does it with 68.3% of students economically disadvantaged, yet still edges out Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School in reading and essentially ties it in math. Arco Iris posts the ZIP's best math and science scores with the lowest economic disadvantage (21.3%), and holds the single highest test figure anywhere here — 74.6% in 3rd grade math — before falling sharply in later grades. Fir Grove Elementary School also beats the district in all three subjects despite 74.8% economic disadvantage. Among middle schools, Whitford Middle School leads in all three subjects. Southridge High School is the puzzle: its graduation rate (84.4%) tops the state but trails its own district, and its chronic absenteeism of 44.2% is the highest in the ZIP.
Three patterns matter. Science is the weak spot — only four schools exceed the state's 30.6%, and Vose Elementary School (19.0) sits far below. Every school scores lower in math than reading, and the two smallest gaps belong to the top performers. Per-student spending shows no relationship to results — the biggest spenders, McKay Elementary School and Greenway Elementary School, land mid-pack — while absenteeism tracks much more closely with achievement, and nine of ten schools here sit below the state rate.
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