Schools in Zip Code 97026

ZIP code 97026 serves Gervais, Oregon, where four schools — an elementary (K–5), a middle (6–8), a high (9–12), and a K–12 charter — educate about 1,247 students, all within Gervais School District 1. Enrollment is spread across Gervais Elementary School (384 students), Frontier Charter Academy (341), Gervais High School (324), and Gervais Middle School (198). The district reports a strong overall profile — rank 33 of 141, 77th percentile, 4 stars — yet the individual schools with rank histories sit much lower, at the 40th, 44th, and 51st percentiles in 2025–2026, suggesting the district rating uses a different methodology.

Frontier Charter Academy is the clear academic standout: all-grades ELA 67.6%, math 48.6%, and science 62.5% all top the district (44.4%, 29.4%, 28.3%) and state (43.8%, 32.9%, 30.6%), and its chronic absenteeism of 10.9% is far below the district's 27.0% and the state's 33.5%. It also spends the least per student ($6,786), but its graduation rate of 68.2% trails the district (81.4%) and state (83.0%), and many grade-level scores are suppressed. Gervais High School is the opposite story: its graduation rate of 89.2% beats district and state, but 11th-grade math is 16.7% (below district 18.1% and state 22.9%) and chronic absenteeism is 42.7%, the highest locally.

Gervais Middle School shows the strongest improvement, rising from 23rd percentile with 1 star in 2023–2024 to 51st percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026. Gervais Elementary School is the largest school and has the lowest student-teacher ratio (13.4), but 5th-grade science is 17.2%, well behind district 5th-grade (22.1%) and state (30.8%). Economic need is very high: free/reduced lunch is reported at 100.26%, 102.02%, and 99.38% at the three traditional schools (not reported for Frontier), which is best read as near-universal economic disadvantage.