Summary:
ZIP code 97458 is home to exactly one elementary school: Myrtle Crest School, a K–5 school with 271 students in Myrtle Point School District 41. Because it is the only elementary option in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare it with, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and Oregon statewide averages. The school serves a high-need community: 95.2% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $23,378, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.9, which works out to roughly 16 teachers for the building. Chronic absenteeism stands at 37.5%, above Oregon's 33.5% but slightly below the district's 38.0%.
Academically, Myrtle Crest trails the state in every subject tested in 2025–2026. All-grades English Language Arts proficiency is 31.2%, matching the district exactly but 12.6 percentage points below the state's 43.8%; every grade level lags the state by at least 10 points, with 4th grade showing the widest gap at 14.1 points. Math is 27.9% — 6.2 points above the district's 21.7% but 5.0 points below the state's 32.9% — with 5th grade math a notable weak spot at 19.5%, 12.9 points under the state. Science proficiency is 26.2%, the smallest gap to the state at 4.4 points, though still below both district and state.
School ratings reflect these challenges. Myrtle Crest currently holds 1 star, ranking 526 of 709 schools (26th percentile), down from 2 stars and 440 of 706 (38th percentile) the prior year and close to its 2023–2024 result of 530 of 710 (25th percentile) — so there is no clear upward trend. The district is also rated 1 star, ranked 100 of 141 districts (29th percentile), meaning the school is not outperforming its broader district profile. Taken together, the picture is a small, high-poverty school with significant absenteeism and below-state achievement, where math relative to the district is the clearest bright spot.
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