Best Public Schools in Zip Code 97141

ZIP code 97141 covers Tillamook, Oregon, and lists six schools serving students from kindergarten through grade 12 — two elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools — with a combined enrollment of 2,029 students.

Five of the six are in Tillamook School District 9, accounting for 2,014 students. The sixth, Trask River High School, enrolls just 15 students and belongs to the ODE YCEP District. Poverty indicators are high across the area: free and reduced lunch ranges from 75.99% at Tillamook High School to 84.68% at Liberty Elementary School.

Tillamook High School is the academic anchor of the area, ranking 45th of 271 high schools (83rd percentile, 4 stars) with ELA proficiency of 65.2% and science proficiency of 53.6%, far above the district (44.5% and 32.3%) and state (43.8% and 30.6%). Its grade-11 results are also strong — ELA 65.2% vs the state's 46.0%, math 30.0% vs 22.9%, science 53.6% vs 33.8% — though chronic absenteeism is 44.2%, above the state's 33.5%. Among elementary and middle schools, South Prairie Elementary School has the strongest math result at 39.7%, above the district's 30.1% and the state's 32.9%. Liberty Elementary School stands out for conditions rather than test scores (no OSAS reported, likely a K–1 school): the lowest absenteeism in the district at 31.9%, the smallest student-teacher ratio at 11.4, and the highest per-student spending at $22,888.

The clearest weak spots are middle-grade math and science. East Elementary School (grades 4–6) posts 5th-grade math at 17.9% vs the state's 32.4% and 5th-grade science at 17.6% vs 30.8%, while Tillamook Junior High School's 8th-grade science is 21.5% vs 27.7%. Attendance also worsens at the secondary level: Tillamook Junior High is at 39.6% and Tillamook High at 44.2%, compared with 31.9%–33.8% at the elementary schools. Trask River High School is a tiny, specialized school whose test scores the state suppressed, so its proficiency is unknown rather than a sign of weak performance.