Summary:
ZIP code 97212 in Portland, Oregon contains 8 public schools — six elementary, one middle, and one high school — enrolling 4,833 students, all in Portland School District 1J, which ranks 12th of 141 districts statewide at 5 stars. Enrollment is unusually top-heavy: Grant High School alone holds 2,149 students, or 44.5% of the ZIP's total — roughly as many as all six elementary schools combined.
Alameda Elementary School is the standout, ranked 9th of 709 Oregon elementary schools with 84.9% ELA and 80.3% math proficiency, plus chronic absenteeism of 12.2% — about a third of district and state rates. Beverly Cleary School ranks 17th and posts the ZIP's lowest absenteeism (12.0%) and best science score (65.5%), while Beaumont Middle School ranks 25th of 371 middle schools. Irvington Elementary School climbed from 100th to 62nd in three years. Grant High posts a 93.5% graduation rate and 11th-grade math proficiency 31.2 points above the state, but its rank slid from 12th to 40th and it is the only school here with absenteeism (36.0%) above both district and state averages. Rose City Park and Sabin Elementary School sit in the 79th–82nd percentile; Kairos PDX, the smallest school, ranks 584th of 709.
Across seven schools the poverty indicator is nearly identical (41.68%–43.34%), yet ELA proficiency spans 28.9 points, and per-student spending doesn't track results either: Alameda spends $21,157 and ranks 9th statewide, while the top spender, Irvington ($23,943), ranks 62nd. Chronic absenteeism lines up most cleanly with achievement, and science is the weakest subject nearly everywhere.
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