Summary:
ZIP code 97138 covers the coastal community of Seaside, Oregon, and is home to four schools serving roughly 1,520 students: Pacific Ridge Elementary School (K–5), Seaside Middle School (6–8), and Seaside High School (9–12), all part of Seaside School District 10, plus Jewell School (PK–12), which forms its own single-school Jewell School District 8.
Pacific Ridge is the steadiest performer in the area. It is one of only two schools here to match or exceed the state in math (33.9% proficient vs 32.9% statewide), edges the state in ELA (44.1%), and has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the group at 33.6% — essentially the state norm. Seaside Middle and Seaside High share the clearest weaknesses. The middle school's 8th-grade science proficiency of 12.5% is the lowest single academic figure in the data and less than half the state's 8th-grade rate, while its math result (22.7%) also trails well behind. Seaside High is the only one-star school here (27th percentile), posting the ZIP's lowest math proficiency (14.3%) and lowest graduation rate (79.7% vs 83.0% statewide), though its rank percentile has improved three years running.
Jewell School is the outlier in every direction. It has the highest ELA (51.4%) and science (35.0%) proficiency in the ZIP and a 100% graduation rate, but also the highest chronic absenteeism (52.7%) and by far the highest per-student spending ($69,324). It receives no state ranking, and all of its grade-level test results are suppressed by the state because of tiny cohort sizes — those values are unknown, not zero. Across all four schools, absenteeism ranges from 33.6% to 52.7% and rises as grade levels increase, mirroring a similar slide in proficiency, with science and high-school math standing out as the area's most urgent gaps.
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