Summary:
ZIP code 97103, covering the Astoria area on Oregon's north coast, has three elementary schools serving a combined 987 students across two districts: Astor Elementary School (K–2, 342 students) and Lewis & Clark Elementary School (grades 3–5, 352 students), both in Astoria School District 1, plus Hilda Lahti Elementary School (K–8, 293 students) in Knappa School District 4.
All three schools serve high-need populations, with free/reduced lunch rates between 66.19% and 70.76%, and all three keep chronic absenteeism below the state's 33.5%. Astor stands out for attendance and staffing: the lowest absenteeism at 25.2%, the lowest student/teacher ratio at 13.6, and the highest per-student spending at $19,374. Because it serves K–2, state testing does not apply, so it has no OSAS scores — that is not a weakness. Lewis & Clark has the strongest results of the two schools with test data: all-grade science at 34.1% (above the state's 30.6%) and 5th-grade ELA at 48% (above the state's 47.1%). Math is a weak spot, below state at every tested grade, and its rank has slipped from the 49th to the 43rd percentile over three years.
Hilda Lahti is improving from a low base — its percentile rank rose from 11 to 28 over three years — but proficiency remains far below state: ELA 28.5% vs. 43.8%, math 19.4% vs. 32.9%, science 12.3% vs. 30.6%. Some middle grades raise serious flags, including 6th-grade ELA and 5th-grade math, both reported as under 5%, and 7th-grade math at 6.1%. Bright spots are 8th-grade math at 33.3% (state 30.0%) and 3rd-grade ELA at 40%. Note that Hilda Lahti's all-grade figures mix elementary and middle-school results, so comparisons with the grades 3–5 Lewis & Clark are not perfectly apples-to-apples.
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