Summary:
ZIP code 97411 covers Bandon, a small coastal community in Oregon, and it contains just one elementary school: Ocean Crest Elementary School, a K–4 building with 240 students in Bandon School District 54. Because there is only one elementary school here, there are no other local schools to compare it to; the useful yardsticks are the district and the state — and those two tell different stories. The district itself ranks 42nd of 141 Oregon districts (70th percentile, 4 stars), while the school ranks 419th of 709 schools (41st percentile, 2 stars).
Academically, the school's 2025-2026 state test results are mixed. In English language arts, 40.4% of students were proficient, below both the district (48.2%) and the state (43.8%). In math, 32.3% were proficient — slightly ahead of the district (29.9%) and essentially even with the state (32.9%). Grade-level results are weaker: 3rd-grade math (32.7%) trails the state by 8.6 points and 4th-grade math (32.0%) by 6.9 points, while 4th-grade ELA (38.0%) is 5.5 points below the state. Third-grade ELA, at 42.9%, is the one clear strength, above the state's 41.5%. The bigger concern is the trend: the school slid from 4 stars in 2023-2024 to 3 stars to 2 stars in 2025-2026, a 38-percentile-point drop in two years.
Other numbers give parents important context. Chronic absenteeism is 35.9%, above the state's 33.5% and well above the district's 28.5%. About 88.33% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school spends $20,420 per student with a 15:1 student-teacher ratio. With roughly 48 students per grade, a handful of students can move school-wide percentages noticeably, so single-year swings deserve some caution. The main things to watch are whether the ranking decline continues for a fourth year and whether 3rd-grade reading strength holds as those students reach 4th grade.
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