Summary:
ZIP code 97913 covers Nyssa, Oregon, home to four schools serving grades K–12 within Nyssa School District 26: Nyssa Virtual School (alternative, K–12), Nyssa Elementary School (K–5), Nyssa Middle School (6–8), and Nyssa High School (9–12). Total enrollment is 2,115 students, with 987 of them — about 46.7% — at Nyssa Virtual, while the three brick-and-mortar schools enroll 1,128 combined. The district itself ranks 27th of 141 in Oregon, at the 81st percentile with 4 stars.
Nyssa Virtual School is the academic outlier, posting 76.9% ELA, 59.8% math, and 61.8% science proficiency in 2025–2026, roughly 30 points above the district and 27–33 points above the state. Its profile, however, is unusual: a 292.8 student-teacher ratio, the lowest per-student spending at $6,870, and no free/reduced lunch or chronic absenteeism data. At Nyssa High School, the 94.0% graduation rate beats both the district (86.7%) and state (83.0%), but 11th-grade math is only 16.2% versus the state's 22.9%, with ELA near state and science somewhat below.
Among the brick-and-mortar schools, poverty is very high — free/reduced lunch is 90.44% at the elementary, 91.64% at the high school, and 93.13% at the middle school — while per-student spending runs $19,888–$21,057. Attendance is better than the state's 33.5% at the elementary (12.9%) and middle (16.6%) but higher at the high school (28.0%). Achievement lags: elementary ELA is 36.9%, math 28.9%, and science 24.1%; middle science is 22.2%, though 8th-grade ELA is a bright spot at 52.2%. The middle school's rank percentile improved from 37 to 48, while the high school swung from 86th percentile and 4 stars down to 43rd percentile and 2 stars.
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