Summary:
ZIP code 97535 is home to two high schools serving grades 9–12 in the Phoenix-Talent area: Phoenix High School, with 687 students, and Armadillo Community Charter School, with 77 students. Both belong to Phoenix-Talent School District 4, which is ranked 101 of 141 districts in Oregon (28th percentile, 1 star). Together the two schools enroll 764 high schoolers, and Phoenix High accounts for about 90% of them.
Phoenix High School is the stronger performer in nearly every category. Its 2025–2026 rank is 168 of 271 (38th percentile, 2 stars), its graduation rate is 93.1% — above the district's 87.8% and the state's 83.0% — and its English Language Arts proficiency is 45.1%, slightly above Oregon's 43.8%. Science proficiency is 25.2%, above the district's 23.9% but below the state's 30.6%. The concerns are math, where only 16.6% met the standard (below the district's 25.4% and the state's 32.9%), and chronic absenteeism at 50.4%, higher than both the district's 35.8% and the state's 33.5%.
Armadillo Community Charter School trails on every academic and engagement measure: a rank of 249 of 271 (8th percentile, 0 stars), a 56.7% graduation rate, 23.5% ELA proficiency, 5.9% math proficiency, 17.6% science proficiency, and 64.1% chronic absenteeism — the highest here and nearly double the state rate. It does have smaller classes (a 14.5 student-teacher ratio versus Phoenix's 20.1) and much lower per-student spending ($6,954 versus $21,422), though charter and district funding may not be directly comparable. Note that Phoenix's reported free/reduced lunch figure is 103.35%, which is not usable as a literal percentage. Both schools rank below the state median overall.
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