Summary:
ZIP code 97367 covers Lincoln City on the Oregon coast and contains four schools serving kindergarten through 12th grade — two elementary schools (Oceanlake Elementary School for K–2 and Taft Elementary School for grades 3–6), one middle school (Taft Middle School, grades 7–8), and one high school (Taft High School, grades 9–12) — all part of the Lincoln County School District, which ranks 113th of 141 Oregon districts (20th percentile, 1 star) and enrolls 1,480 students across these four campuses.
There are real bright spots. Taft High School posts a 93.2% graduation rate, above the district's 88.1% and the state's 83.0%. Taft Middle School is the strongest local performer in science at 26.9% proficient, and its 8th-grade science result (26.9%) sits just 0.8 points below the state average. Taft Elementary School's 4th-grade ELA (32.1%) edges past the district. Yet no school here exceeds Oregon's state average in any reported OSAS subject, and math is the clearest shared weakness: Taft High 15.1%, Taft Elementary 17.5%, and Taft Middle 18.2% — all below the district (20.2%) and far below the state (32.9%). Taft Elementary's 6th-grade math falls below 10%.
Attendance and poverty indicators are challenging everywhere. Every school with data reports chronic absenteeism above the state's 33.5%, led by Taft High at 47.9%, then Oceanlake (45.4%), Taft Middle (44.1%), and Taft Elementary (39.3%). Free/reduced-lunch rates are high at Taft Elementary (90.95%) and Oceanlake (89.84%). Rank trends are mixed: Taft High improved from the 9th to 29th percentile and Taft Middle from 9th to 27th, while Taft Elementary slipped from 17th to 11th. No school earns more than 1 star.
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