Summary:
ZIP code 97333 in Corvallis, Oregon contains three schools, all of them elementary schools serving grades K–5: Adams Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, and Inavale Community Partners dba Muddy Creek Charter School. All three belong to Corvallis School District 509J. Together they enroll 760 students — 653 in the two district-run neighborhood schools and 107 in the charter school, by far the smallest of the three. There are no middle or high schools in this ZIP, so students here move elsewhere for the secondary grades.
Adams is the academic anchor: it posts the ZIP's best ELA (48.5%) and math (50%) proficiency and the lowest chronic absenteeism (27.2%), and its rank is the steadiest, holding 4 stars at the 72nd percentile. Muddy Creek is the science outlier (71.4%, 40.8 points above the state) and has the smallest classes (11:1) and the lowest per-student spending ($10,510), but it also has the ZIP's lowest math (31.4%) and the steepest rank decline, sliding from the 87th to the 57th percentile. Lincoln trails the ZIP in ELA (40.7%) and science (22.7%) — the only school here below the state in either — and dropped from the 62nd to the 46th percentile, even while spending the most per student ($22,134).
Two points stand out for families. First, all three schools declined in statewide rank over two years, though very unevenly: Adams barely moved, while Lincoln and Muddy Creek fell sharply. Second, absenteeism is this area's quiet strength — the three schools sit within 0.9 points of each other (27.2% to 28.1%), all better than the district (30.2%) and the state (33.5%). Meanwhile the district carries a 5-star, 92nd-percentile label (rank 11 of 141), yet its three buildings here rank at the 72nd, 57th, and 46th percentiles. Note that Muddy Creek's free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank, so no poverty comparison is possible for that school.
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