Summary:
Zip code 97496 covers Winston, Oregon, and contains four public schools serving PK through 12th grade — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — all within the Winston-Dillard School District 116, which ranks 129 of 141 Oregon districts. Total enrollment is 1,120 students, and the four schools form a clear grade pipeline: Brockway Elementary (PK–2) feeds McGovern Elementary (3–5), then Winston Middle School (6–8), then Douglas High School (9–12).
McGovern Elementary is the brightest spot: it earned 2 stars and rose from the 21st to the 36th percentile over two years, with the zip's best math (26.5%) and science (35.4%) proficiency, exceeding state averages in 5th-grade science and 4th-grade ELA. Winston Middle is the most consistently low performer — 10th percentile and 1 star, the highest chronic absenteeism (39.9%), the lowest ELA (25.9%) and science (15.4%) scores, the lowest per-student spending ($16,450), and the highest student-teacher ratio (17.2). Douglas High is contradictory: its graduation rate of 85.1% beats district and state, yet its rank fell from the 70th percentile with 4 stars to the 19th percentile with 1 star, and math proficiency is just 7%.
Math is the weakest subject across the zip, with even the top score below the state's 32.9%. All four schools exceed the state chronic absenteeism rate of 33.5%. Poverty is universal, with free/reduced-lunch rates from 73.39% to 91.96% — highest at Brockway, which also has the highest spending ($21,240) and the lowest class size (13.4); because Brockway serves PK–2, it has no test or rank data here, so its academic performance is unknown rather than weak. Spending across the zip runs from $16,450 to $21,240 and does not align neatly with results. The key priorities are middle-school absenteeism, high-school math, and district-wide attendance.
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