Summary:
ZIP code 97420 covers Coos Bay, where 9 schools serve roughly 2,907 students, all under Coos Bay School District 9. The mix includes five elementary schools (Madison and Eastside for grades K–2, Millicoma and Sunset for grades 3–6, plus Lighthouse Charter School for PK–8), one junior high, two high schools, and two alternative charter options. Enrollment is lopsided: Marshfield Senior High School alone holds about 27% of students, and the three largest schools together hold 58%. Madison and Eastside have no state test data because Oregon testing begins in grade 3, and every test score for Resource Link Charter School is suppressed by the state.
On results, Lighthouse Charter School stands out most: it has the highest poverty rate in the ZIP (75.37% free/reduced lunch) yet the lowest chronic absenteeism anywhere (18.2% versus 33.5% statewide) and the only math proficiency at state level (32.3% versus 32.9%). Millicoma School is the strongest traditional elementary, with ELA of 44.8% above the state, and it has climbed from the 34th to the 49th state percentile in three years. Marshfield Senior High School is also improving and beats the state in science (39.4%), though its math (18.1%) and graduation rate (75.3%) trail state. At the other end, Sunset School sits at the 7th state percentile, with ELA 23.7%, math 15.2%, and science 14.1%.
Two patterns matter for families. First, math is the district-wide gap: every school with data sits below the state in math except Lighthouse. Second, absenteeism is widespread — six of eight reporting schools exceed the state rate, with Destinations Academy at 77.5% yet an 87.5% graduation rate, a reminder that headline metrics measure different things. Note too that four schools report an identical $7,092 per-student spending figure, likely a placeholder, and Destinations' 113.04% poverty figure is a reporting anomaly.
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