Cove Charter School, Cove OR - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Cove Charter School

Cove Charter School sits at the center of a very small, primarily agricultural community in the Grande Ronde Valley, serving students from kindergarten through twelfth grade in a single building. As a public charter school, it operates under the Cove School District but offers an alternative governance structure that families may want to investigate for its specific educational approach. The school is woven into the town’s compact core, alongside the public library and a handful of local businesses, which means the school feels like an integral part of daily life rather than a separate campus.

The student body is small and predominantly white, with a modest share of students identifying as Hispanic or as two or more races. About a fifth of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school below the typical level of economic need seen in many Oregon public schools. Because the school covers all grade levels in one location, older and younger students share the same campus, a setup that can create a close-knit, multi-age community feel but also means a single school culture shapes everything from elementary classrooms to high school hallways.

State assessment results from a single year of data show a split in academic performance by subject. In English language arts, proficiency levels generally rise by grade, with the strongest showing in the middle grades and a solid overall rate that places the school above the midpoint among districts in Union County. Reading and writing skills appear to be a relative strength, particularly by fifth grade and beyond. Math results tell a different story. Proficiency rates decline steadily after the early elementary years, reaching a noticeably lower point by seventh grade. Science results fall in between, with about half of fifth graders meeting the bar and a smaller share of eighth graders doing so. The overall proficiency index, which combines all tested subjects and grades, lands above the county median, but the math weakness is pronounced enough that a parent may want to ask the school directly about its approach to mathematics instruction and intervention in the upper grades.

Housing in Cove is moderately priced relative to national benchmarks, though costs have risen recently. The community is very tight-knit and slow-growing, with an aging population and limited rental availability. A family moving here should expect a quiet, rural setting with few in-town businesses and no public transit. La Grande, the nearest city of any size, is about a sixteen-mile drive west. The school’s single-building, all-grades charter model means a child would spend their entire K-12 career in one small community of peers and staff, which can be either an appeal or a limitation depending on a family’s preference for variety and scale. The available data does not include a graduation rate, chronic absenteeism information, or details on course access and program offerings, so those are gaps a prospective family would need to fill by speaking directly with the school.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=80%Cohort of 21 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

326 schools plotted. 10 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 9 pts above state median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 48%

▲ 14 pts above state median

Grade 541%

School 41% · District 41%

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 639%

School 39% · District 39%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 28%

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 3 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 670%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 29 pts above state median

Grade 765%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 21 pts above state median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 24 pts above state median

Science

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 17 pts above state median

This schoolCove SD 15, 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.