Summary:
Elementary schools in ZIP code 97330 (Corvallis, Oregon) number six — five K–5 schools plus K–8 Franklin School — together serving about 1,808 students within the strong Corvallis School District 509J, which ranks #11 of 141 Oregon districts (5 stars).
Franklin School is the clear standout: #25 of 709 Oregon schools (96th percentile, 5 stars) for three straight years, with 79.4% ELA, 72.2% math, and 61.5% science proficiency in all grades, plus the lowest chronic absenteeism at 14.3%. It does this with the largest classes in the group (20.2 students per teacher) and below-average spending. Bessie Coleman Elementary School and Kathryn Jones Harrison Elementary School follow, both 4-star schools. Coleman posts the second-strongest math (65%) and science (50.9%) with the lowest spending ($19,492). Harrison is solid across subjects (53.4% ELA, 48.9% math, 51.1% science) with the smallest classes (12.1) and highest spending ($22,854). Letitia Carson Elementary School has climbed from 3 to 4 stars and now sits in the 72nd percentile.
Mt View Elementary School (#327, 3 stars) and Garfield Elementary School (#406, 2 stars) are the lower performers; Garfield's math (32.8%) is roughly the state average. Science is the group's weakest subject (average 39.9%, below the district's 43.4%), and 5th-grade math and science are pressure points at several schools. All six schools have nearly identical free/reduced-lunch rates (about 57%) and all beat district and state chronic-absenteeism rates, yet the top-to-bottom proficiency gap is roughly 39 points — so poverty and absenteeism alone do not explain the differences.
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