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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 97071


At a glance
10
Schools
5,311
Students
2
Districts
Top rankedWoodburn Arthur Academy502nd of 709 Oregon elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Woodburn Arthur Academy up 15 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Woodburn Arthur Academy 12.3 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
1★
0★
2 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

ZIP code 97071 in Woodburn, Oregon contains 10 schools — 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high schools — serving about 5,311 students, and it is a high-poverty area where nine of the ten schools belong to Woodburn School District 103, ranked 139th of 141 Oregon districts at the 1st percentile with 0 stars; the exception is William P Lord High School, which is in ODE YCEP District. Free/reduced lunch rates run 70.87% to 78.77% in the district and 96.70% at William P Lord.

Woodburn Arthur Academy is the academic outlier: best rank percentile at 29%, improving across three years, and the only school in the ZIP with an all-grade subject above state proficiency — science at 33.3% versus the state's 30.6% — with ELA 35.2% and math 22.5%, all above district rates. It also reports $9,225 per student versus roughly $20,000–$22,600 elsewhere. Woodburn High School, the largest at 1,606 students, shows a completion-versus-proficiency split: its 84.3% graduation rate beats the state's 83.0%, yet math is under 5%, ELA 34.5%, science 19.0%, and chronic absenteeism is 40.5%. Washington Elementary School (26.9%) and Nellie Muir Elementary School (28.1%) have the ZIP's best attendance, both below the district's 36.7% and the state's 33.5%, though both remain among the lowest performers academically.

The most urgent needs sit with the smallest high schools: Woodburn Success (103 students, 80.2% chronic absenteeism, 59.5% graduation, ELA 5.9%, math and science under 5%) and William P Lord (91 students, 83.1% chronic absenteeism, 47.4% graduation, ELA/math/science under 5%, with 8th grade results suppressed and shown as —). District-wide proficiency is 19.7% ELA, 9.4% math, and 11.3% science, far below state rates of 43.8%, 32.9%, and 30.6%. Aside from Woodburn Arthur (29%) and Woodburn High (20%), every recently ranked school sits at the 6th percentile or below.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Oregon Department of Education.

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