Summary:
ZIP code 97439 covers Florence, Oregon, and contains just one elementary school: Siuslaw Elementary School, a K–5 campus with 519 students in the Siuslaw School District 97J. Because it is the only elementary school in this ZIP, there are no local school-to-school comparisons to make, so the meaningful benchmarks are the district and Oregon statewide results.
On 2025–2026 OSAS tests, math is the relative bright spot: 32.4% of students met standards at the all-grade level, which is 2.7 percentage points above the district and only 0.5 points below the state's 32.9%. ELA sits at 39.5%, below both the district (40.6%) and the state (43.8%), and it trails the state at every tested grade — 35.4% in 3rd grade, 39.1% in 4th, and 43.9% in 5th. Math slips as students move up: 35.8% in 3rd grade, 32.3% in 4th, and 29.3% in 5th, the school's weakest subject-and-grade combination. Fifth-grade science comes in at 29.8%, slightly under the state's 30.8% and well below the district's all-grade figure of 35.2%.
The school's most recent statewide rank is 409 of 709, the 42nd percentile with 2 stars. That is an improvement over 476 in 2024–2025, but still below its 2023–2024 rank of 367, and the school has held 2 stars for three straight years. Chronic absenteeism is 30.6%, better than the district's 36.9% and the state's 33.5%, though it still means roughly 3 in 10 students are chronically absent. About 84.2% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $20,934, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.1. Overall, this is a single-school ZIP with relatively stronger math and absenteeism results, but below-state ELA and science performance and high economic need.
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