Summary:
ZIP code 97522 has one public school, Butte Falls Charter School, an alternative K–12 school in Butte Falls School District 91, serving 119 students in a small rural Oregon community. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no other local public schools to compare it with. It is classified as an alternative school and serves kindergarten through 12th grade, with roughly 9 students per grade if enrollment is spread evenly. About 81.51% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating high economic need.
Resources are notable: the school spends $38,864 per student, implying about $4.62 million total for 119 students, and the student-teacher ratio is 10.3 to 1. Outcomes are mixed. The graduation rate is 62.5%, compared with 83.0% statewide, a gap of 20.5 percentage points. Chronic absenteeism is 37.4%, above the state's 33.5% but slightly below the district's 38.5%. All-grade test results in 2025–2026 are 31.4% proficient in English language arts vs. 43.8% statewide, 27.5% in math vs. 32.9% statewide, and 13.6% in science vs. 30.6% statewide.
Reported grade-level results are limited to 4th and 5th grade; ELA and math for grades 3, 6, 7, 8, and 11 are suppressed, as are 8th and 11th grade science. Suppressed values are unknown, not zero. Fourth-grade math is a relative bright spot at 38.5%, essentially matching the state's 38.9%. However, 4th grade ELA is 23.1% vs. 43.5% statewide, 5th grade ELA is 8.3% vs. 47.1%, 5th grade math is 8.3% vs. 32.4%, and 5th grade science is under 5% vs. 30.8%, more than 25.8 points below state. Science overall is the weakest subject, and many middle and high school results remain unavailable due to privacy suppression.
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