Summit Learning Charter, Eagle Creek OR

Original Research by School Decision on Summit Learning Charter

Summit Learning Charter is a public charter school serving kindergarten through twelfth grade, based in the small, unincorporated Clackamas County community of Eagle Creek. As a charter school, it operates with its own authorization while remaining part of the Estacada School District 108. The school’s enrollment is substantial for a charter, drawing across a wide grade span, and its student body is predominantly white, with a noticeable Hispanic population and smaller shares of students who are Black, Asian, multiracial, or Native American. Data on economic disadvantage, students with disabilities, and English learner status was not available, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about the supports it offers for those groups.

Academically, proficiency on Oregon’s state assessments paints a mixed picture. In English language arts, Summit’s results across grades three through eight cluster near the state average for the school; rates of proficiency sit around the middle of the band, with third and fifth grade at about half of students meeting the bar, and other grades close behind. Math proficiency is notably lower, with wide variation by grade level. Older elementary students in grade five and middle schoolers in grade six and eight show weaker results, while third and seventh grade math results are comparatively stronger for this school. Science results, available for grades five and eight, show a modest share of students meeting the standard. The school’s overall proficiency across all tested subjects and grades sits above the midpoint among districts in Clackamas County, according to a composite measure, indicating that while there are soft spots, the school is not at the bottom of the county’s range.

No graduation rate data was reported, which for a K-12 charter that enrolls through twelfth grade is a gap a parent may want to follow up on. Similarly, information on chronic absenteeism was not available. The school environment data, including discipline rates and staffing, was also absent, leaving those questions unanswered in the public record.

The Eagle Creek community is rural and low-density, with no downtown, limited commercial development, and a landscape of homes, farms, and forest. Residents drive for nearly all errands and commutes; there is no public transit serving the area. The school itself sits along a highway corridor. Housing values in the zip code are above the national median, reflecting the broader Portland metro exurban market, and have seen modest year-over-year appreciation. Affordability is stretched, with estimated monthly mortgage costs outpacing what a typical renter pays, and the local job base is thin; most working residents commute west to Estacada, Oregon City, or Portland.

The parent district, Estacada School District 108, recently passed a bond to fund a complete renovation of Estacada High School, including modernized science labs, HVAC, and accessibility upgrades, with construction beginning in 2025. The district also adopted a new K-5 literacy curriculum in 2023 grounded in the science of reading, a change any family with elementary-age children would want to know about when considering Summit’s own approach. For a family weighing this school, the key questions are about fit: the rural setting and limited local amenities, the mixed state test results with math as a particular area of concern, and the gaps in data around graduation rates and specialized supports. Summit Learning Charter offers a K-12 pathway under a charter model, but the publicly available numbers leave enough unanswered that a direct conversation with the school about its academic trajectory, support services, and postsecondary outcomes would be worthwhile.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

93.0%Cohort of 272 students · Class of 2021

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 343%

School 43% · District 34% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 444%

School 44% · District 37% · ▲ 7 pts above district

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

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 21% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 629%

School 29% · District 15% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 747%

School 47% · District 21% · ▲ 27 pts above district

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

Grade 831%

School 31% · District 24% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grade 350%

School 50% · District 37% · ▲ 13 pts above district

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

Grade 449%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 8 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 51%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 648%

School 48% · District 31% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 33% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 39% · ▲ 8 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 33% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 27% · ▲ 11 pts above district

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

This schoolEstacada SD 108, 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.