Summary:
ZIP code 97201 is home to three schools serving elementary grades — two K–5 schools in Portland School District 1J and one K–8 school overseen by the Oregon Department of Education — with a combined enrollment of 915 students and no standalone middle, high, or alternative schools listed. Ainsworth Elementary School is the largest by far at 587 students (about 64% of the area total), followed by The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science at 198 and Emerson School at 130.
Two of the three schools rank among the strongest in Oregon. Ainsworth sits 14th of 709 ranked schools (98th percentile, 5 stars) and has held a top-20 rank for three years running, leading the group in math (78.4%) and posting the lowest chronic absenteeism at 14.8%, well under the district's 32.5% and the state's 33.5%. Emerson ranks 21st of 709 (97th percentile, 5 stars) after climbing from 86th and 87th in the two prior years, and it leads the ZIP code in ELA (83.3%) and science (75.0%) while spending $12,228 per student — roughly 81% less than Ainsworth's $22,111. Both schools beat district and state results in every reported grade and subject, so higher spending does not neatly track with higher scores here.
Cottonwood ranks 170th of 709 (76th percentile, 4 stars) with a more uneven profile: all-grade proficiency is 65.4% in ELA but only 40.7% in math and 45.2% in science, and its chronic absenteeism of 36.0% is above the state rate. Its grade-level results swing widely — 80% ELA in 6th grade and 62.5% math in 7th, but 33.3% ELA and math in 3rd grade and 9.1% science in 8th. Some scores, including its 4th grade ELA and math, are suppressed as "—," meaning unknown rather than zero, and its spending and free/reduced lunch figures are not reported, which limits comparisons.
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