Summary:
ZIP code 97417 contains exactly one public school — Canyonville School, an elementary school serving grades K–8 in the town of Canyonville, Oregon — so there is no in-neighborhood comparison to make, and every insight here compares the school either against itself (grade to grade, subject to subject) or against its district and state benchmarks.
Canyonville's clearest strengths are attendance and reading. Chronic absenteeism was 25.1%, well below the 40.2% recorded across South Umpqua School District 19 and below Oregon's 33.5% — a strong result for a school where 81.08% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. In English language arts, 43.8% of students met the standard, matching the state and beating the district's 34.4%. Grade 4 (60.0%) and grade 6 (50.0%) are the standout classrooms, and eighth-grade science (33.3%) is the only upper-grade result above the state. Overall, the school ranks in the 48th percentile of Oregon schools with a 2-star rating and outperforms its district in all three reported subjects.
The drag is upper-grade mathematics. Grades 3–4 average 40.0%, essentially level with the state's 40.1%, but grades 5–8 average just 19.3% against a state average of 31.4%. Grade 5 is the sharpest single concern, lagging in both reading (27.3% vs. 47.1% statewide) and math (18.2% vs. 32.4%). Keep in mind that with roughly 20 students per grade and only one year of test results available, these grade-level figures rest on very small groups and should be read as directional signals rather than established trends.
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