Summary:
ZIP code 97013 covers Canby, Oregon, where six public schools serve roughly 3,333 students: four K–6 elementaries, one 7–8 middle school, and one 9–12 high school, all operated by Canby School District 86. The K–12 pipeline feeds cleanly from the elementaries into Baker Prairie Middle School and then Canby High School, and there are no charter or alternative options in this data set. The district ranks 64th of 141 Oregon districts (55th percentile, 3 stars), but individual schools span a much wider range than that single label implies. Canby High School alone enrolls 1,402 students — 42% of everyone in the ZIP.
Howard Eccles Elementary School is the standout. It is the only school in the ZIP beating the state average in two subjects (45.1% ELA and 36.5% science) while serving one of the higher poverty rates, and it climbed from the 32nd to the 54th percentile over three years. Canby High School posts a 90.8% graduation rate, 7.8 points above the state, and leads in science (38.6%), but trails the state in 11th grade English by 13.7 points. Baker Prairie Middle School is the quiet riser, up from the 24th to the 37th percentile and the only ZIP school beating the state in science at its tested grade. Every school here still sits below the state average in ELA and math.
Two elementaries are the persistent concerns. Cecile Trost Elementary School sits at the 17th percentile with the ZIP's lowest math proficiency (17.6%), while Philander Lee Elementary School fell from the 42nd to the 23rd percentile — the steepest decline in the data — with the highest poverty rate (76.34%) and lowest science score. Notably, the usual explanations don't separate these schools: poverty is nearly uniform across five of six schools, spending is not buying results (Canby High School spends the least and performs best at graduation), and attendance is strong district-wide but uncorrelated with achievement. Fifth grade math is a district-wide weak spot, with all four elementaries below the state. Parents should read these as school-level differences rather than demographic destiny.
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