Summary:
ZIP code 98844 has one listed elementary school, Oroville Elementary, serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in the Oroville area. The school enrolls 298 students and has a reported student-teacher ratio of 13.9 to 1. It operates within the Oroville School District, which ranks in the lower portion of Washington districts. Since there is no other elementary school in the ZIP code for comparison, families will want to focus on the school’s grade-level results, recent trends, and available student-support context.
Oroville Elementary performs below Washington averages in all three reported subjects. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 35.04% in English Language Arts, 23.36% in math, and 34.29% in science. The school was about 17 to 20 percentage points below the state in each subject. Math is the clearest academic concern, especially in fifth and sixth grades, where proficiency was only 14.29% and 13.51%. Fourth-grade ELA was also notably weak at 27.78%, compared with 50.43% statewide. The school’s math result was slightly above the district average, but both school and district performance remained low.
Third grade is the strongest reported grade, with 44.83% proficiency in both ELA and math, while results generally drop sharply in later grades. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA declined 8.22 percentage points and science declined 4.60 points; math improved only slightly. The school’s statewide ranking also fell from the 26th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 19th percentile in 2025–2026. About 68% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, an important indicator of the community’s economic needs, while the relatively favorable staffing ratio suggests that class size alone may not explain the results. Parents may wish to ask about upper-grade math support, fourth-grade literacy interventions, science instruction, attendance, and the school’s plans to reverse recent declines.
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