Central Linn Elementary School, Halsey OR

Original Research by School Decision on Central Linn Elementary School

Central Linn Elementary School serves kindergarten through sixth grade as a regular public school in Halsey, a small rural city in Linn County, Oregon, and is part of the Central Linn School District 552. The town has a residential character with historical ties to the railroad and grass seed industry; its downtown core burned down years ago, and civic life now centers around City Hall, the Community Center, and the public library. No major new development or growth trajectory was found in publicly available information, and the population has been described as stable or declining. The school itself is the only elementary in the district for these grades.

State testing results from the most recent year show proficiency rates across math, English language arts, and science that sit below the midpoint when compared with other districts in Linn County. For English language arts, proficiency among the tested grades in the school ranged roughly from about a third to just under half of students, with the lower grades generally performing better than the upper grades. In math, proficiency rates across grades four, five, and six all clustered below a third of students, while third grade was slightly higher. Science, tested only in fifth grade, showed a proficiency rate below a fifth of students. Only one year of data was available, so no trend direction could be established. A parent looking into this school may want to ask about instructional supports in math and science in particular.

The student body is modest in size for an elementary school serving seven grade levels. A large majority of students are white, with a small Hispanic population and a very small number of students identifying as two or more races. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the economic makeup of the community. No data was available on the share of students receiving special education services or those classified as English learners, so a parent with a child in either category may wish to ask the school directly about those programs and staffing levels.

Housing in the area is priced at a level that falls below state benchmarks, and the local economy has not shown large-scale growth in recent years. The school is the only elementary option in this part of the district, so for families living in Halsey or the surrounding rural area, it is the default placement. For a family weighing this school against others, the central facts are the below-county-average proficiency results, the high share of students from low-income households, and the small-town setting with limited nearby amenities. The school’s grade span means students will move on to Central Linn’s middle and high school after sixth grade, so the academic trajectory through the whole district is worth considering alongside the elementary experience itself.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 331%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 629%

School 29% · District 29%

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 429%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 12 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 638%

School 38% · District 38%

▼ 3 pts below state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 516%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

This schoolCentral Linn SD 552, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.