Summary:
ZIP 97918 covers the rural eastern Oregon town of Vale, where all four local schools — serving grades K–12 with about 912 students total — belong to Vale School District 84, a standout district ranked 9th of 141 in Oregon (94th percentile).
Vale High School is the district's flagship, ranked 12th of 271 Oregon high schools (96th percentile) with a 98.4% graduation rate against the state's 83.0%, and 11th-grade ELA proficiency of 79.7% versus 46% statewide. Vale Elementary School is the most improved, climbing from 333rd to 235th of roughly 710 schools over three years, with 6th-grade ELA at 66.7%. Vale Middle School holds steady at 86th of 371 (77th percentile), where math is its relative strength at 46.2%. Willowcreek Elementary School enrolls just 61 students across grades 1–8, so its grade-level results swing wildly and many are state-suppressed; treat its numbers cautiously in both directions.
Every school here exceeds the state in both ELA and math, though math is the district-wide soft spot — the gap is 13.2 points at Vale Elementary and 36.2 points at the high school. Attendance is a shared strength: all reported chronic-absenteeism figures (9.3%–16.8%) sit well below Oregon's 33.5%. Roughly 86% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and high poverty coexists here with high outcomes. Spending per student ($18,314–$24,959) moves inversely with enrollment, a typical rural small-school pattern rather than unequal resourcing. One caveat: test scores and rankings reflect SY 2025-2026, while spending, attendance, and graduation rates reflect SY 2024-2025.
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