Summary:
The 97026 zip code area is home to 4 schools, including 1 elementary school, 1 middle school, 1 high school, and 1 alternative charter school. While the schools in the Gervais School District 1 face some challenges, one school stands out for its exceptional performance.
Frontier Charter Academy, an alternative public charter school, has impressive test scores, particularly in English Language Arts, where 84.6% of 8th-grade students were proficient or better, compared to just 31.3% in the Gervais School District and 40.6% statewide. The school also outperformed the district and state in 8th-grade math and science. Additionally, Frontier Charter Academy has a much lower student-teacher ratio of 13.1 compared to the other schools in the district.
While the overall performance of Gervais High School is below the state average, the school has shown improvement in recent years, moving up in the statewide rankings from 142nd out of 241 schools in 2021-2022 to 153rd out of 258 schools in 2022-2023. The school's 11th-grade English Language Arts proficiency rate of 52.4% in 2022-2023 was higher than the district and state averages. However, all the schools in the Gervais School District have high rates of free and reduced-price lunch recipients, ranging from 74.6% to 75.81%, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.
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