Schools in Zip Code 97402

ZIP code 97402 contains 15 schools serving roughly 5,379 students, including 7 elementary, 2 middle, 4 high, and 2 alternative schools spread across four districts in the Eugene area. Bethel School District 52 dominates with 9 schools and about 83% of the enrollment, but ranks 121 of 141 districts statewide — the 14th percentile — with 1 star. Eugene School District 4J (4 stars, 84th percentile) and Crow-Applegate-Lorane School District 66 (3 stars, 60th percentile) each run a small number of schools here, and Lane Education Service District operates three programs with limited comparable data.

Several schools stand out. Crow High School is the only one above the state average in all three subjects — ELA 61.1%, math 50.0%, science 46.2% — with a 100% graduation rate, the highest per-student spending ($43,072), and the lowest student-teacher ratio (9.5), though it enrolls only 70 students and has 37.3% chronic absenteeism. Applegate Elementary School has by far the lowest chronic absenteeism at 8.3%, far below the state's 33.5%. Among Bethel schools, Meadow View School is strongest, with ELA at 45.2% (above state) and math at 30.7% (near state). Willamette High School, the largest at 1,455 students, posts a 91.6% graduation rate and 26.4% absenteeism — better than district and state — but test scores far below state, with its rank slipping from the 21st to the 11th percentile. Cesar Chavez Elementary School improved from the 12th to the 34th percentile.

Kalapuya High School faces the steepest challenges: a 53.8% graduation rate, 65.2% chronic absenteeism, and math and science proficiency under 5%. Prairie Mountain School (9th percentile) and Malabon Elementary School (8th percentile) also rank at the bottom with 0 stars. Poverty is high across Bethel — most schools report free/reduced lunch near or above 87% — yet Fairfield Elementary School, Danebo Elementary School, and Shasta Middle School still beat district averages in some subjects, showing poverty alone does not determine outcomes. Some alternative and ESD programs lack comparable test data, and reported free/reduced-lunch values above 100% for Crow High School and Lane School are reporting anomalies, not literal percentages.