Summary:
ZIP code 97465 (Port Orford, Oregon) contains just one elementary-level school: Driftwood Elementary School, a K–8 school with 174 students in the Port Orford-Langlois School District 2CJ. Since it is the only school in the area, families are looking at a single-school profile rather than a choice between schools, so the most useful benchmarks are the school's own district and Oregon state averages.
Academically, the picture is mixed, with science the clearest strength. Overall science proficiency is 38.9%, above the district's 38.8% and 8.3 percentage points above Oregon's 30.6%, and both tested science grades beat the state — 5th grade at 54.5% versus 30.8%, and 8th grade at 32.0% versus 27.7%. Third-grade math is another bright spot at 61.5%, a 20.2-point advantage over the state. Overall English language arts (32.2%) and math (23.6%) fall below Oregon averages of 43.8% and 32.9%. Results vary sharply by grade: 4th grade is very low in both ELA (18.8% vs 43.5% state) and math (6.3% vs 38.9% state), while 5th-grade science (54.5%) far outpaces 5th-grade ELA (27.3%) and math (18.2%).
Other context matters too. The school improved its state rank from 606 of 706 in 2024-25 to 428 of 709 in 2025-26, moving from the 14th to the 40th percentile and from 1 star to 2 stars, though that is close to its 2023-24 position of 447 of 710. Chronic absenteeism is 29.0%, better than Oregon's 33.5% but above the district's 21.0%. About 76.44% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $26,227, and the student-teacher ratio is 17.4:1. With only 174 students across K–8, grade-level rates rest on small groups, so year-to-year swings should be read with caution.
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