Summary:
ZIP code 97488 is served by exactly one public school: McKenzie River Community School, an alternative K–12 school with 195 students in McKenzie School District 68. The area has no separate elementary, middle, or high schools, so this single campus covers every grade from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Academically, the school's all-grade OSAS results are above the state in all three tested subjects: English Language Arts at 52% versus Oregon's 43.8%, math at 39.5% versus 32.9%, and science at 42.9% versus 30.6% — a 12.3 percentage-point advantage in science. Grade-level results are uneven. Math is above state in 3rd (50.0% vs. 41.3%), 5th (54.5% vs. 32.4%), and 7th (43.8% vs. 33.3%), while 4th-grade math (33.3% vs. 38.9%) and 4th- and 7th-grade ELA (41.7% vs. 43.5% and 43.8% vs. 45.3%) fall slightly below. Results for 6th, 8th, and 11th grades were suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so middle- and high-school proficiency cannot be fully evaluated. Because cohorts here are small, small gaps should not be overinterpreted.
Two figures stand out as challenges. The graduation rate is 43.8%, compared with Oregon's 83.0% — a gap of 39.2 percentage points — and chronic absenteeism is 38.8% versus 33.5% statewide. At the same time, 94.36% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $36,067, and the student-teacher ratio is 11.3, indicating a small, heavily staffed, high-poverty setting. For parents, the picture is a school where aggregate test proficiency outpaces the state even as graduation and attendance lag, a contrast worth asking about directly, particularly since this is an alternative school serving a population with different completion pathways.
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