Summary:
ZIP code 97027 in Gladstone, Oregon, is home to four public schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — all part of Gladstone School District 115, serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, with about 1,600 students enrolled. The district ranks 83rd of 141 in Oregon, in the 41st percentile with 2 stars, a below-median context.
For parents comparing schools, the four tell very different stories. Gladstone High School is the strongest riser, moving from the 35th to the 55th percentile and from 2 stars to 3 stars, with an 83.8% graduation rate (state 83.0%) and 11th-grade science at 38.5% vs. the state’s 33.8%. John Wetten Elementary School has the best attendance in the ZIP code — 26.4% chronic absenteeism vs. the district’s 31.3% and the state’s 33.5% — and is the only tested school above the district average in ELA, math, and science, including 3rd-grade math at 50.4% vs. the state’s 41.3%. Its rank, however, has slipped from 3 stars to 2 stars.
The clearest concern is Walter L Kraxberger Middle School, which dropped from 3 stars to 1 star and from the 52nd to the 25th percentile, with all-grade math at 17.2% vs. the state’s 32.9%. District-wide, math is the largest gap at 24.7% vs. the state’s 32.9%. Gladstone Center for Children and Families serves PK–K only, so it has no test scores; it has the highest poverty (82.57% free/reduced lunch), highest spending ($27,129 per student), and smallest classes (14.1 students per teacher), but chronic absenteeism of 34.6%. Attendance is mixed overall, with the high school’s 36.8% the highest in the area.
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