Summary:
ZIP 97423 in Coquille, Oregon contains two high schools — Coquille Junior Senior High (grades 7–12, 360 students) and Winter Lakes High (grades 8–12, 237 students) — both operated by Coquille School District 8 and enrolling 597 students in a rural, high-poverty community where roughly 90% or more of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Despite sharing a district and its 2-star district rating, the two schools' profiles differ dramatically.
Coquille Junior Senior High is the academic standout. It ranks 111 of 271 Oregon high schools (3 stars), up from the 42nd to the 59th percentile over two years, and graduates 93.6% of its students — 10.6 points above the state. It beats the state in English language arts at every grade tested (all grades 55.9% vs. 43.8%; 11th grade 62.1% vs. 46.0%), and is also above state in 11th-grade science and 7th-grade math (43.2% vs. 33.3%). Its weak spots are math in 8th grade (10.9%) and 11th grade (9.1%), both below state, and chronic absenteeism of 38.6%, above the state's 33.5%.
Winter Lakes High ranks 228 of 271 (1 star) and has slipped from the 32nd to the 14th–16th percentile. Its graduation rate is 14.1% against Coquille's 93.6% — a 79.5-point gap within one district — and 60.9% of its students are chronically absent, more than 27 points above the state. It trails the state at every reported grade and subject, with all-grades math at under 5% versus 32.9% statewide; its 8th-grade results are suppressed by the state, so they are unknown rather than zero. Coquille spends $23,091 per student versus $15,713 and has a student–teacher ratio of 17.4 versus 23.7 — a pattern worth noting, not proof of cause. The clearest takeaways: Coquille's secondary math and the district-wide absenteeism rate.
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