Summary:
ZIP code 97426 — Creswell, Oregon — is home to exactly one elementary school, Creslane Elementary School, a K–5 building with 480 students in the Creswell School District 40. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there is no local peer school to compare it against, so the useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Oregon.
Creslane's standout strength is science: 42.1% of students are proficient, which is 11.5 points above the state (30.6%) and 7.8 points above its own district (34.3%). Fifth grade is clearly the strongest cohort — 5th-grade English Language Arts sits at 52.7% proficient versus 47.1% statewide, and 5th-grade math at 34.2% edges the state's 32.4%. These are the only grade-level results where the school beats Oregon. Achievement also climbs steadily from 3rd to 5th grade, with ELA rising from 30.0% to 52.7%. Chronic absenteeism (31.1%) is better than the state (33.5%) but slightly worse than the district (29.8%). Overall, math is essentially at state level (31.9% vs. 32.9%), while ELA lags (39.3% vs. 43.8%).
The clearest concern is the early grades. Third-grade math is 25.7% proficient against 41.3% statewide — a 15.6-point gap — and 3rd-grade ELA is 11.5 points behind the state, the two largest deficits in the record. Fourth grade also trails in both subjects. Statewide, the school has drifted from the 56th percentile with 3 stars in 2023–24 to the 48th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26. It serves a high-poverty population (71.88% qualify for free/reduced lunch) with high per-student spending ($20,683) and an 18.3:1 student–teacher ratio. Families should read the early-grade results as the priority area and the 5th-grade and science results as genuine strengths.
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