Summary:
ZIP code 97038 is home to five schools — three elementary, one middle and one high school — all part of the Molalla River School District 35, serving about 2,189 students in the Molalla area. District-wide, the district ranks 103 of 141 (27th percentile, 1 star), a low baseline that every school record shares. Enrollment ranges from 745 students at Molalla High School down to 224 at Molalla River Academy, a K–8 school listed as elementary.
Rural Dell Elementary School is the academic standout: the highest rank here at 363 of 709 (49th percentile, 2 stars), the strongest all-grade results — ELA 40.3%, math 37.8%, science 26.7% — and the only school whose math rate beats the state's 32.9%. Its third-grade ELA and math both reach 52.6%, though fifth-grade math slips to 20%. Molalla River Academy is the attendance and improvement standout, with chronic absenteeism of 22.8% — 10.7 points below the state and 13.0 points below the district — and a rank that rose from the 10th percentile to the 35th. Its overall proficiency still trails district and state, and its fifth-grade math is under 5%.
Molalla Elementary School is the most challenged, ranking 613 of 709 (14th percentile, 1 star) with the highest absenteeism at 42.7%. Molalla River Middle School and Molalla High School show steep rank declines, from the 56th to the 21st percentile and the 61st to the 18th. The high school spends the most ($19,933 per student) yet posts low all-grade ELA (26.7%) and math (15.1%), and its 78.5% graduation rate is below the state's 83.0%. No school here exceeds the state in ELA or science, and four of five top the state's 33.5% absenteeism rate — a 19.9-point gap separates Academy's 22.8% from Molalla Elementary's 42.7%.
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