Schools in Zip Code 97869

ZIP code 97869 covers Prairie City, Oregon, and contains three schools — all labeled Alternative, all serving grades K–12, and all part of Prairie City School District 4. Combined enrollment is 1,211 students, but this is largely a virtual-school hub: Oregon Connections Academy (884 students) and Virtual Preparatory Academy of Oregon (80 students) share an address and together account for 964 students, or 79.6%. The brick-and-mortar Prairie City School holds the remaining 247. Because district figures aggregate all three, any "district" comparison here mostly describes the online programs.

Prairie City School is the completion standout: a 90.9% graduation rate (state: 83.0%) and 17.3% chronic absenteeism — about half the state's 33.5%. It spends $25,324 per student with a student–teacher ratio of 11.3, and is the only school reporting a free/reduced-lunch figure (79.35%). Its test results are the weakest of the three, though, with a sharp upper-grade fade: 4th grade ELA 57.1% and math 50.0%, then 8th grade ELA 5.9% and 11th grade math and science both under 5%.

Oregon Connections Academy posts the strongest proficiency — ELA 36.8%, math 33.6%, science 33.2% — and its 11th grade math (46.0%) is exactly double the state's 22.9%, yet its graduation rate is 49.3% and absenteeism 54.4%. Virtual Preparatory Academy of Oregon reports absenteeism of 38.7% and science of 30.8%, with 8 of 21 test rows suppressed (unreported, not zero) and no graduation rate. One shared weakness: 5th grade math, where district results sit at 8.6% against the state's 32.4%.