Summary:
ZIP code 97374 covers Scio, a small rural community in Linn County, Oregon. It contains five schools serving roughly 1,998 students in grades K–12, all belonging to Scio School District 95 (ranked 44th of 141 districts statewide). The mix is two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative school — but the composition is unusual, because that alternative school, Willamette Connections Academy, is a K–12 online academy that alone accounts for 64% of all enrollment in the ZIP, shaping every district-level statistic.
On test scores, Willamette Connections Academy leads every subject at the All Grades level — ELA 46.8, Math 43.4, Science 38.2, all above the state (43.8, 32.9, 30.6) — yet its graduation rate (76.2%) and chronic absenteeism (42.1%) trail the state. Scio High School posts the best graduation rate in the file at 89.5%, plus the most spending per student ($16,479) and smallest classes (14.8:1), but the weakest math proficiency (23.9%). Centennial Elementary School shows the steepest decline (39th → 48th → 27th percentile) and the lowest science score, 11.3%, which is 19.3 points below state. Scio Middle School sits below district and state in all three subjects, while tiny Lourdes School has the lowest chronic absenteeism (32.4%) of any school here.
Two patterns matter for families. First, attendance is a district-wide issue: four of the five schools exceed the state's 33.5% chronic absenteeism rate, and the district average is 42.7%. Second, money and class size don't map cleanly onto results — the highest-spending, smallest-class school has the weakest math, while the largest-class school has the highest scores. Poverty is uniformly concentrated, with the three reporting district schools clustered between 62.4% and 63.6% FRPL. Finally, many "—" entries, especially for 36-student Lourdes, are state privacy suppressions, meaning the figure is unknown rather than zero.
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