Schools in Zip Code 97415

ZIP code 97415 covers Brookings, a coastal community in Curry County, Oregon, and is home to three public schools serving grades K–12 — all part of a single district, Brookings-Harbor School District 17C. They are Kalmiopsis Elementary School (K–5, 547 students), Azalea Middle School (6–8, 309 students), and Brookings-Harbor High School (9–12, 422 students), totaling 1,278 students. About 84% to 89% of students at each campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, so all three serve a high-needs population.

The three schools are moving in different directions. Kalmiopsis is the standout and the only school here that matches or beats the Oregon average in a core subject: math at 36.7% proficient versus the state's 32.9%, and English language arts at 44.0% versus 43.8%. It also rose from the 30th to the 50th percentile in a single year. Azalea is the lowest performer, at the 16th percentile of Oregon middle schools and below the state in every subject — 6th-grade reading is 21.8% versus the state's 41.8%. Brookings-Harbor High is sharply split: its 44.6% in English is above the state's overall rate, but 11th-grade math is just 9.1% versus 22.9% statewide — the widest gap in this data — and the school has slipped from the 43rd to the 25th percentile over three years.

Attendance is a genuine bright spot: chronic absenteeism is better than the state's 33.5% at all three schools (high school 21.3%, middle school 25.2%, elementary 31.9%). Science is the weakest subject everywhere, with no school within 7 points of the state rate. The high school's graduation rate is 73.1% versus 83.0% statewide. Interestingly, the lowest-spending campus posts the strongest results, though high school costs are structurally higher and spending alone does not explain the performance pattern here.