Summary:
ZIP code 97495 covers Winchester, Oregon, and contains exactly one school: Winchester Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 330 students, which means families in this area have no local middle or high school and must look outside the ZIP for grades beyond 5. The school belongs to Douglas County School District 4, a large district with 141 ranked schools, so this single school represents a small slice of a much bigger district.
For parents, the headline is the gap between the school and everything around it. Winchester Elementary sits at the 20th percentile statewide with a 1-star rating, while its own district ranks 49th of 141 schools at the 65th percentile with 3 stars — a 45-percentile-point internal gap. In SY 2025-2026 testing, 30.1% of students were proficient in English language arts, 23.1% in math, and 21.6% in science, below both district (44.6%, 32.7%, 36.6%) and state (43.8%, 32.9%, 30.6%) averages in every subject and every tested grade. Third grade is the relative bright spot: ELA proficiency of 37% is just 4.5 points below the state, the smallest gap on the proficiency side, while 4th- and 5th-grade gaps widen considerably (ELA 4th grade is 18.5 points below state, math 4th grade 18.9 points below).
Context data (SY 2024-2025) show 83.33% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, chronic absenteeism of 38.6% — above the district's 35.8% and the state's 33.5% — per-student spending of $17,968, and a student-teacher ratio of 13.6:1. The encouraging news is direction: the school's state ranking improved from the 7th percentile in 2024-2025 to the 20th percentile in 2025-2026, its best of three tracked years, moving from a 0-star to a 1-star rating. It remains in the bottom quartile of Oregon schools, so this is progress rather than a turnaround.
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