Summary:
ZIP code 97734 is home to a single elementary school: Culver Elementary School, a K–5 school in Culver, Oregon serving 262 students as part of Culver School District 4. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it against — the comparisons below are to its district, the state, or the school's own history. The school serves a high-need community: about 69.85% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending is $18,838, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.8, or roughly 16 students per teacher.
Attendance is the school's clearest strength. Its chronic absenteeism rate is 24.6%, better than the district's 28.3% and well below the state's 33.5%. Within its district, the school also performs relatively well in math (26.1% proficient versus 20.1% for the district) and science (23.1% versus 18.2%). Its overall rating of 2 stars is higher than the district's 1 star, and at the 34th percentile it still outranks the district overall, which sits at the 18th percentile.
Achievement is more mixed when measured against the state. In English language arts, 40.3% of students are proficient, below both the district (47.5%) and the state (43.8%). Math (26.1% versus 32.9% statewide) and science (23.1% versus 30.6%) also trail the state. Math proficiency slips steadily by grade — 32.3% in 3rd, 25.0% in 4th, and 23.1% in 5th — while 5th-grade ELA (38.5% versus 47.1% statewide) shows the widest grade-level ELA gap. The school's state ranking has also been uneven: 44th percentile in 2023–2024, 50th percentile with 3 stars in 2024–2025, then down to 34th percentile with 2 stars most recently.
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