Best Public Schools in Zip Code 97720

ZIP code 97720 covers Burns, Oregon, a small rural community where four schools serve roughly 534 reported students across grades K–12: one elementary school, two high schools, and one alternative school.

Enrollment is heavily concentrated. Henry L Slater Elementary School (297 students, K–5) and Burns High School (215 students, 9–12) account for about 96% of students, while Monroe School (15 students, 6–12) and Burns High Desert Academy (7 students, K–12 alternative) are very small. Among schools with reported scores, Henry L Slater is the academic leader: ELA 28.3% and math 24.1%, both above its district (22.5% and 15.6%) but below Oregon (43.8% and 32.9%). Burns High shows a sharp subject split — science 26.1% is above the district's 13.3% and near the state's 30.6%, but ELA is 10.7% and math is under 5%. Attendance contrasts just as sharply: chronic absenteeism is 23.9% at Henry, better than the district (37.7%) and state (33.5%), but 47.5% at Burns High.

Graduation rates are complicated by tiny cohorts. Burns High's 83.3% is essentially at the state average of 83.0% and above its district's 76.0%. Monroe reports the highest rate at 92.9%, and Burns High Desert Academy the lowest at 22.2%, but with 15 and 7 students respectively, a single student can shift these figures by several points. Test scores for both Monroe and Burns High Desert Academy are suppressed for privacy — they are unknown, not zero. Harney County School District 3, which serves three of the four schools, ranks 132 of 141 districts statewide with 0 stars, while Monroe belongs to the ODE YCEP District. Reported per-student spending is highest at the secondary level ($26,808 at Burns High, $26,070 at the Academy) versus $18,273 at Henry, and Henry's free/reduced-price lunch rate is 91.58%.