Summary:
ZIP code 97119, which covers Gaston, Oregon, contains one elementary school in the supplied data: Gaston Elementary School, a K–6 school with 228 students in Gaston School District 511J.
Academically, the school is above the state average in English language arts and science and about even in math. All-grade ELA is 48.5% proficient versus 43.8% statewide, while science is 39.3% versus 30.6% statewide. Math is 32.4%, close to the state’s 32.9% and above the district’s 28.6%. Upper-grade ELA is a clear strength: grade 5 ELA is 57.1% versus 47.1% statewide, and grade 6 ELA is 59.4% versus 41.8% statewide. Science at grade 5 is 39.3% versus 30.8% statewide, and grade 6 math is 40.6% versus 29.7% statewide. The main academic concern is math in grade 5, where proficiency is 17.9% versus 32.4% statewide. Grade 4 ELA is also below the state at 39.5% versus 43.5%, and grades 3 and 4 math trail the state at 34.2% versus 41.3% and 34.2% versus 38.9%, respectively.
Attendance is a positive signal: chronic absenteeism is 28.6%, lower than the district’s 38.4% and the state’s 33.5%. The school serves a majority economically disadvantaged population, with a free/reduced lunch rate of 62.72%. Its current rank is 309 of 709, or the 56th percentile with 3 stars, down from the 69th percentile in 2023–2024 but stable over the last two years. Per-student spending is $18,412 and the student-teacher ratio is 15.6, though the data does not provide state or district comparisons for those two metrics. With only 228 students in K–6, each grade is small, so grade-level results can swing; the all-grade trends are the more reliable guide. Overall, this is a small school with above-state ELA and science results, better-than-state attendance, and math that is roughly at the state level overall but uneven by grade.
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