Summary:
ZIP code 97148 in Yamhill, Oregon is served by two public schools — Yamhill Carlton Intermediate School (grades 4–8, 369 students) and Yamhill Carlton High School (grades 9–12, 279 students) — both part of Yamhill Carlton School District 1, for a total of 648 students. There are no elementary or alternative schools in this ZIP, and the district ranks 95th of 141 in Oregon (33rd percentile, 2 stars).
Comparing the two schools, the high school holds the strongest single academic pocket: English language arts proficiency of 51%, above the district (39.1%) and the state (43.8%; 11th-grade state is 46%). The intermediate school's bright spots are its early grades, where 4th-grade ELA (45.1%) and 5th-grade ELA (50.8%) top the state. Math and science lag at both schools — the intermediate school posts 21.9% in math and 19% in science, the high school 18.8% and 20.8%, all below the state's 32.9% and 30.6%. The largest gaps are 8th-grade math (9.7% vs state 30%) and 8th-grade science (8.1% vs state 27.7%). Both schools slipped in state rankings, the high school steeply, from 4 stars/77th percentile to 2 stars/42nd percentile.
Other practical context for families: chronic absenteeism is 24.2% at the intermediate school and 31.3% at the high school, both above the district's 22.2% but below the state's 33.5%. The high school graduates 84.4% of its students, slightly above the state's 83.0%. Free/reduced lunch is nearly identical at the two schools (50.41% and 50.54%), and student/teacher ratios are close (16.3 and 16.7), while per-student spending diverges sharply — $14,384 at the intermediate school versus $20,849 at the high school.
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