Best Public Schools in Zip Code 97739

ZIP code 97739 covers the La Pine area of central Oregon, where four public schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school serving about 1,362 students — all belong to Bend-LaPine Administrative School District 1, a 4-star district ranked 34th of 141 in Oregon.

All four La Pine schools rank near the bottom of their Oregon school lists, even though the district itself sits in the 76th percentile. LaPine Elementary School is the academic leader of the group, with the ZIP's highest all-grade English language arts (23.5%) and math (23.7%) proficiency, plus the highest single result anywhere in the ZIP, a 5th grade ELA score of 32.9%. LaPine Senior High School has the best science proficiency (25.9%) and the best current rank percentile (23rd), but its math proficiency is under 5%, compared with 43.5% districtwide and 32.9% statewide, and its graduation rate of 73.8% is below both district and state. Rosland Elementary is the clearest negative outlier: the lowest rank percentile (3rd of 709) and lowest science score (13%), yet the highest per-student spending ($23,382) and smallest classes (10.8 students per teacher). LaPine Middle School stands out for need, with a 99.3% free/reduced lunch rate.

Every school in the ZIP trails both district and state in every subject, and chronic absenteeism is a ZIP-wide problem — all four schools run above the district's 34.2% and the state's 33.5%, averaging roughly 45.7% across the ZIP. Higher spending and smaller classes at Rosland are not translating into higher proficiency in this data. LaPine Senior High's climb from the 6th percentile to the 23rd is the one clear sign of recent improvement.