Summary:
ZIP code 97823 covers Condon, Oregon, a small rural community served by Condon School District 25J, with just two public schools: Condon Elementary School for grades K–8 (85 students) and Condon High School for grades 9–12 (46 students), for 131 students total. There is no standalone middle school or alternative school — middle grades are housed inside the K–8 elementary.
For parents comparing the two, the picture is mixed. Condon High School has the strongest recent ranking signal: 40 of 270 schools (85th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025, a major jump from 30th percentile and 2 stars the prior year, plus a 100% graduation rate versus 83% statewide. But with only 46 students in grades 9–12, one or two students can swing those results, and all of the high school's OSAS test scores are suppressed by the state, so its academics cannot be corroborated publicly. Condon Elementary School's standout is attendance: chronic absenteeism of 17.1%, well below the district's 23.0% and the state's 33.5%. Its all-grade proficiency trails the district and state in ELA, math, and science — science is weakest at 17.4% versus 30.6% statewide — though 8th grade ELA (53.3% vs. 41.5%) and 8th grade math (33.3% vs. 30.0%) beat state averages.
Other differences matter too. Condon High School spends $36,887 per student versus $29,747 at Condon Elementary School — about 24% more — and has a lower student-teacher ratio (9.8 vs. 11.5). Chronic absenteeism diverges sharply: 34.1% at the high school versus 17.1% at the elementary. Finally, note the caveats: the metrics span different school years, many test scores are marked "—" because the state suppressed them (unknown, not zero, and not evidence of failure), and the elementary's free/reduced lunch figure of 114.12% is anomalous and unusable for comparison.
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