Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 97471

ZIP code 97471 in Roseburg, Oregon contains just one public elementary school — Sunnyslope Elementary School — serving grades K–5 with 246 students in Douglas County School District 4. Because there is only one elementary school here, there is no cross-school comparison to make; instead, parents should weigh this school against its own district and state benchmarks. It is a high-poverty school, with 83.33% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, but also a well-resourced one, at $20,865 in spending per student and a student-teacher ratio of 12.7.

Academically, Sunnyslope has a sharply split profile. Math is a real strength: 36.4% of students are proficient at the all-grades level, which is above both the district (32.7%) and the state (32.9%), and fourth-grade math is the strongest figure in the record at 43.2%. Literacy is the clear weakness. English Language Arts sits at 33.3% proficient, roughly 10–11 points below both the district and the state, and every grade level trails both benchmarks — third-grade ELA is the lowest cell at 26.2%. Science, tested only in fifth grade, is 30.0%, below the district but essentially level with the state. Notably, this school's pattern is inverted from its benchmarks: district and state both score ELA about 11–12 points higher than math, while here math is about 3 points higher than ELA. Nationally, the school ranks in the 41st percentile with 2 stars, while its district sits at the 65th percentile — so it underperforms the system it belongs to.

Attendance is a quiet success: chronic absenteeism is 31.0%, better than both the state (33.5%) and the district (35.8%), which is uncommon for a school with this level of economic disadvantage. The three-year ranking history (38 → 49 → 41 percentile) reads as flat performance rather than a trend. Parents should note that only one year of test, spending, and attendance data is available, so improvement or decline over time cannot be confirmed; the most useful question to ask the school would be about prior-year reading results and how literacy is being addressed.