Summary:
ZIP code 97844 is home to four schools — three traditional campuses and one alternative program — all part of Morrow School District 1 in Oregon, serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade and enrolling about 787 students combined. The district is ranked 74th of 141 in the state with 2 stars, placing it near the middle. Test scores reflect 2025–2026, while graduation, attendance, spending, and staffing data are generally from 2024–2025.
Irrigon Junior/Senior High School stands out for its 95.7% graduation rate — far above the state's 83.0% and just shy of the district's 96.7% — and for a steady climb in state percentile from 15 to 26 to 49, with stars rising from 1 to 2. Its 11th grade ELA proficiency (57.4%) also beats district and state. Yet math (16.2%) and science (18.2%) lag, and chronic absenteeism is 41.7%. Irrigon Elementary School has the best attendance in the group at 29.9% — below the district's 35.4% and the state's 33.5% — and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.7, with 6th grade math above the state at 31.3%; science, however, is only 14.9% against the state's 30.6%. A C Houghton Elementary School is the math bright spot at 32.7%, above the district's 23.5% and essentially matching the state's 32.9%, even though its ELA (26.9%) trails district and state.
Morrow Education Center, an alternative K–12 school, faces the steepest challenges: 75.4% chronic absenteeism, 19.4% ELA, 8.3% math, science under 5%, a 31.0 student-teacher ratio, and the lowest reported spending at $5,270. Its 81.0% graduation rate is only 2.0 points below the state's 83.0%. Because it is an alternative setting, comparisons deserve caution. Finally, suppressed values — 4th grade ELA and math at A C Houghton, many results at Morrow Education Center, and that school's free/reduced lunch rate — should be treated as unknown, not as zeros.
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