Summary:
ZIP code 97016 contains three schools serving roughly 725 students in grades K–12: Clatskanie Elementary School (K–6, 387 students) and Clatskanie Middle/High School (7–12, 307 students), both in Clatskanie School District 6J, plus the much smaller Mist Elementary School (K–5, 31 students) in Vernonia School District 47J. Even though the area lists no middle schools, the middle grades are housed inside Clatskanie Middle/High.
The three schools perform very differently. Mist Elementary has by far the strongest test results, with 81.3% of students proficient in English language arts and 56.3% in math, well above district and state rates — but with only 31 students, those numbers can swing widely, and its science score was suppressed by the state, meaning it is unknown rather than a failure. Clatskanie Middle/High earns 4 stars and ranks 63rd of 271 schools (77th percentile), with strong 11th-grade results: 73.8% in ELA, 28.6% in math, and 37.2% in science. Its grades 7–8 are the weak spot, with 7th-grade math at 6.5% and 8th-grade math at 12.1%. Clatskanie Elementary ranks 517th of 709 (27th percentile, 1 star) and shows math proficiency falling from 35.6% in 3rd grade to 8.8% in 6th grade.
Across the ZIP, poverty is high: free or reduced lunch ranges from 67.74% at Mist to 80.1% at Clatskanie Elementary, with Clatskanie Middle/High at 78.18%. Per-student spending runs from $18,160 at Clatskanie Elementary to $23,680 at Clatskanie Middle/High. Chronic absenteeism ranges from 29.9% at Clatskanie Elementary to 35.5% at Mist, and the ZIP-wide rate of about 30.6% is slightly better than the state's 33.5%. Clatskanie Middle/High's graduation rate is 76.9%, matching its district but below the state's 83.0%.
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