Summary:
ZIP code 97466 covers the rural community of Powers, Oregon, home to just two public schools — Powers Elementary School (grades K–6, 62 students) and Powers High School (grades 7–12, 52 students) — both part of Powers School District 31, which serves 114 students total and ranks 122 out of 141 Oregon districts with a 1-star rating. Because the district is so small, a handful of students can move a percentage dramatically, and the state suppresses many grade-level results to protect privacy; those suppressed scores should be read as unknown, not as zero.
Powers Elementary School is the stronger academic performer of the two. Its all-grade proficiency is 41.7% in ELA, 30.6% in math, and 21.4% in science, which is above the district in all three subjects and close to the state in ELA (43.8%) and math (32.9%), though clearly behind in science (30.6%). Its 5th-grade results are lower, at 28.6% ELA, 21.4% math, and 21.4% science. Recent rankings remain in the bottom quartile, moving from the 9th percentile in 2024–25 to the 20th percentile in 2025–26.
Powers High School presents a mixed picture: all-grade ELA is 20%, math 5.7%, and science 19.2%, well below state averages, with 11th-grade math and science both under 5%. Yet its graduation rate of 87.5% beats the state's 83.0%, and 8th-grade science stands out at 41.7% versus 27.7% statewide. Both schools face elevated chronic absenteeism — 37.1% elementary and 39.6% high school, above the state's 33.5% — and parents should note the elementary free/reduced lunch figure of 117.74% is a data anomaly, not a usable poverty measure.
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