Schools in Zip Code 97603

Zip code 97603 covers 12 public schools — six elementary, two middle, three high, and one alternative — serving roughly 5,172 students in the Klamath Falls area. Ten of these schools belong to the Klamath County School District, which ranks in the 45th percentile statewide, and two belong to Klamath Falls City Schools, which ranks in the 55th percentile.

Families seeking the strongest overall outcomes should start with Henley High School and Mazama High School. Both post near-universal graduation rates — 97.7% and 97.9% versus 83.0% statewide — and both rank in the top quarter of Oregon high schools, with ELA proficiency of 69.5% and 60.8% and science proficiency of 55.5% and 56.3%, well above the state's 30.6%. Among elementaries, Shasta Elementary School and Ferguson Elementary School rank highest here, and Shasta's third graders reach 58.2% in both ELA and math. Henley Elementary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the zip at 20.6%, far below the state's 33.5%.

Math is the shared weak spot: Mazama High sits at 22.2%, Brixner Junior High School at 14.4% (with 8th grade math at 8.2%), and Stearns Elementary School at 16.7%, against 32.9% statewide. Stearns stands out for the gap between resources and results, holding the highest per-student spending ($26,900) and smallest classes (14.0 ratio) but the lowest elementary rank in this zip. Absenteeism is extreme at Klamath Learning Center (72.6%), Falcon Heights (70.8%), and Klamath Home Learning Academy (51.9%), which also have the lowest graduation rates. There are bright spots: Klamath Learning Center rose from the 6th to the 56th percentile, Mazama from the 41st to the 77th, and Shasta and Stearns improved as well.