Summary:
ZIP code 97361 in Monmouth, Oregon is served by two public elementary schools — Monmouth Elementary School and Ash Creek Elementary School — both K–5 buildings in Central School District 13J, with no middle or high school inside the ZIP and 901 students combined.
Monmouth Elementary School is the standout: it scores above the state in English language arts (47.3% vs. 43.8%) and math (37.7% vs. 32.9%), and above its own district in all three subjects. Its 3rd-grade math proficiency of 55.2% is the highest figure in this ZIP, and its school rank climbed from the 36th to the 55th percentile over three years. One caution for parents: its math results fall sharply by grade, from 55.2% in 3rd to 29.1% in 5th, and its science score is below the state. Ash Creek Elementary School trails the state in all three subjects — ELA 30.8%, math 19.5%, science 21.1% — and its rank slipped from the 30th to the 18th percentile across the same three years.
What parents should notice is how much the two schools share. Their free/reduced-lunch rates (92.95% and 93.76%) and chronic absenteeism rates (33.9% and 33.3%) are nearly identical, so those factors don't explain the gap — but math proficiency at Monmouth Elementary School is roughly double that at Ash Creek Elementary School. Resources point the same direction: Monmouth receives about $794 more per student and runs smaller classes (18.9 vs. 21.6 students per teacher). Science is the shared weak spot, with both schools below Oregon's 30.6%, and both sit in a district ranked in the bottom 15% of the state.
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