Schools in Zip Code 97051

ZIP code 97051 covers St. Helens, Oregon, and contains seven schools serving roughly 2,642 students from kindergarten through 12th grade, all part of St Helens School District 502. The group includes three elementary schools, one middle school, two high schools and one K–12 alternative school. The district as a whole is rated 106th of 141 in Oregon, at the 25th percentile with 1 star, but that district rating is repeated for every school in the file, so it masks large differences between individual campuses.

St Helens Arthur Academy is the strongest school in the ZIP, ranking 139th of 709 elementary schools at the 80th percentile with 4 stars, up from the 59th to the 71st to the 80th percentile over three years. It beats both the district and the state in reading (66.7%), math (40.9%) and science (61.9%), and has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the area at 23.3%. St Helens High School is the strongest upper-grade option, with an 89.5% graduation rate above district and state and science proficiency of 40.8%, though its reading (34.2%) and math (12.3%) fall below the state.

Results elsewhere are weaker. St Helens Middle School sits at the 16th percentile with reading, math and science all below district and state. McBride Elementary School outperforms Lewis & Clark Elementary School in rank, reading, science and absenteeism, while Lewis & Clark ranks lowest in the ZIP at the 14th percentile. Five of the seven schools have chronic absenteeism above the state's 33.5%, including Plymouth High School at 80.0% and St. Helens Virtual Academy at 55.8%. Plymouth High also graduates only 55.2% of students, and both Plymouth and the Virtual Academy had all test scores suppressed by the state, so their academics cannot be compared. Math is a weakness nearly everywhere, and the highest per-student spending (Plymouth, $26,934) does not come with the best results.