Summary:
Zip code 97016 contains exactly one high school: Clatskanie Middle/High School on SW Bel Air Drive in Clatskanie, a grades 7–12 building of 307 students in Clatskanie School District 6J. With no other school in the area to compare against, the meaningful comparisons run school vs. district vs. Oregon statewide averages. The building spans middle and high grades, and its school-level scores match district-level scores on most lines.
The school's results split sharply by grade level. Eleventh graders beat the state in every subject in 2025‑26, with English language arts proficiency at 73.8% against a state rate of 46.0% — the strongest number in the record — plus math at 28.6% (state 22.9%) and science at 37.2% (state 33.8%). The middle grades lag badly: ELA is 19.6% in 7th grade and 22.4% in 8th, math is 6.5% in 7th grade (state 33.3%) and 12.1% in 8th, and 8th grade science is 17.2%. Across all grades combined, the school posts 36.3% in ELA, 15.1% in math and 25.7% in science, versus state rates of 43.8%, 32.9% and 30.6%. Math is the clear systemic weak point. The school's state rank rose from 47th percentile (2 stars) in 2024‑25 to 77th percentile (4 stars) in 2025‑26.
Attendance is a bright spot: chronic absenteeism is 31.0%, better than the state's 33.5%, despite 78.18% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Graduation is the pressure point, at 76.9% versus the state's 83.0%. The school is heavily resourced, at $23,680 per student with a 15.1:1 student-teacher ratio. With roughly 50 students per grade, each proficiency percentage reflects only a handful of students, so both the recent ranking jump and the low 7th grade math result should be watched across multiple years before being treated as durable trends.
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