Best Public Schools in Zip Code 97503

ZIP code 97503 in White City, Oregon is served by two public schools with a combined enrollment of 1,052 students: Table Rock Elementary, an elementary school serving grades K–5 with 675 students, and White Mountain Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 377 students. Both belong to Eagle Point School District 9, which ranks 112 of 141 Oregon districts at the 21st percentile with 1 star. There is no high school in this ZIP, so older students attend school outside the area and their outcomes cannot be assessed from this data.

Neither school outperforms district or state averages, but White Mountain Middle is the stronger of the two. It ranks 303 of 371 (18th percentile, 1 star) compared with Table Rock's 680 of 709 (4th percentile, 0 stars). White Mountain leads in all-grade ELA (29.9% vs. 18.8%) and science (19.2% vs. 8.6%), while math is essentially tied (16.0% vs. 15.5%). White Mountain has also been improving, rising from the 8th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 18th in 2025–2026 and from 0 stars to 1 star. Table Rock has held 0 stars across all three years of rank history, with its weakest results in 5th-grade math (10%) and 5th-grade science (8.6%).

Both schools serve very high-poverty populations: 95.56% of Table Rock students and 97.35% of White Mountain students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Chronic absenteeism is a relative bright spot, with both schools below the district (33.3%) and state (33.5%): Table Rock at 29.8% and White Mountain at 31.9% — though roughly 3 in 10 students are still chronically absent. Table Rock spends more per student ($17,259 vs. $16,151) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (15.6 vs. 18.4), yet posts lower ELA and science proficiency. Math is the shared weakness: 15.5% and 16.0% versus the state's 32.9%, and White Mountain's weakest grade is 8th (ELA 25.5%, math 12.9%).