Summary:
ZIP code 97041 is served by a single public school: Parkdale Elementary School, a K–5 campus in Mount Hood Parkdale with 264 students. It belongs to Hood River County School District, which ranks 46th of 141 Oregon districts (3 stars, 67th percentile) — an above-average district. Because there is only one school here, there are no local comparisons to make; the useful benchmarks are the district and the state.
The school's clearest strength is attendance. Chronic absenteeism is 13.8% (2024‑25), less than half the district's 29.0% and the state's 33.5% — a notable result at a school where 71.21% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, a group that typically sees higher absenteeism. Fifth-grade results are also competitive: math is 33.3% proficient against the state's 32.4%, and science is 31.0% against 30.8%. Science overall (31.0%) is the subject where the school's gap to its district (33.5%) is smallest. Resources are substantial, at $20,944 per student and a 14.8:1 student-teacher ratio.
The concern is the academic trend. The school's rating fell from 312 of 710 (3 stars) in 2023‑24 to 405 of 706 (2 stars) in 2024‑25 to 506 of 709 (1 star) in 2025‑26 — a loss of roughly 194 rank positions in two years. Overall proficiency is 31.5% in ELA and 26.4% in math, versus district rates of 47.1% and 36.4% and state rates of 43.8% and 32.9%. Lower grades lag most: 3rd-grade math is 22.5% and ELA 24.4%, while 5th-grade ELA reaches 40.5%. Keep in mind these are different cohorts, not the same children tracked over time, and with roughly 44 students per grade a few students can shift a grade-level rate noticeably.
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