Summary:
Zip code 97443 covers the rural community of Glide in Douglas County, Oregon, where three public schools — Glide Elementary School (K–6), Glide Middle School (7–8), and Glide High School (9–12) — serve 746 students in total under a single district, Glide School District 12, with no alternative schools, so each grade band has exactly one public option.
Among the three, Glide High School is the relative standout: it is the only school rated above 1 star (2 stars in all three years), the only one that improved its state percentile across the three-year window (49th to 40th), and its 88.5% graduation rate is above Oregon's 83.0%. Its science proficiency (38.2%) is the only proficiency result in the entire data set that beats the state (30.6%). Glide Elementary School is the largest (398 students) and has the lowest chronic absenteeism (33.0%) and lowest student-teacher ratio (15.8), but its rank percentile slid sharply from 37th to 20th, dropping from 2 stars to 1 star. Glide Middle School is the most consistent underperformer: 1 star all three years, the highest chronic absenteeism (36.0%, above both district and state), and the lowest math proficiency (14.7%).
Math is the district-wide weakness, falling from 23.0% in elementary to 14.7% in middle and 13.0% in high school against a state figure of 32.9%. The most specific signal is a 5th-grade math drop at the elementary level: 3rd and 4th grade both sit near 31%, then fall to 14.5% in 5th grade. Chronic absenteeism clusters tightly across all three schools at 33–36%, suggesting a community-level pattern rather than one building's problem. Per-student spending rises with grade level ($16,510 middle, $17,574 elementary, $19,982 high). Poverty context is incomplete: the elementary school reports 84.92% free/reduced lunch, the middle school's figure is not reported, and the high school's reported figure is not a valid percentage and should not be read literally.
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