Summary:
ZIP code 97487, which covers Veneta, Oregon, has exactly one public elementary school: Veneta Elementary School, a K–5 campus of 340 students at 88131 Territorial Rd. It is the only elementary building in the Fern Ridge School District 28J. About 70.59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, so the school serves a substantially economically disadvantaged community, and it spends $16,734 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 18.8 to 1.
Veneta Elementary's clearest strength is math. Across all grades, 39.9% of students are proficient in math — 8.3 points above the district (31.6%) and 7.0 points above the state (32.9%). Third and fourth grade math also outpace the state by more than 6 points each, and fourth grade English language arts reaches 56.3%, which is 12.8 points above the state. Attendance is a relative bright spot too: 26.8% of students are chronically absent, better than the district's 31.6% and the state's 33.5%.
The main concern is fifth grade. Science proficiency is 19.4% across all grades, 13.4 points below the district and 11.2 points below the state — the largest negative gap in the data. Fifth graders trail the state in every tested subject: ELA by 10.0 points, math by 5.0, and science by 11.4. The school's statewide rank also slid from the 70th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 50th percentile (2 stars) in 2025–2026, though with roughly 57 students per grade, a single student is worth nearly 2 percentage points, so one-year swings should be read with caution.
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