Madrone Trail Public Charter School, Central Point OR

Original Research by School Decision on Madrone Trail Public Charter School

Madrone Trail Public Charter School serves kindergarten through eighth grade in Central Point, Oregon. It is a regular public charter school operating within the Medford SD 549C district. The school is relatively small for a K-8 campus, with enrollment spread fairly evenly across grade levels and a slight dip in the upper middle school years.

The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller share of Hispanic students and very small numbers of other racial groups represented. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school serves only kindergarten through eighth grade, so it does not have a graduation rate, nor does it offer Advanced Placement or other high school-level pathways. The charter status means it operates with some autonomy from the district’s standard policies, though the district remains its authorizer.

State testing results are available for most grades, though the third-grade math proficiency rate was so low that it was reported only as a range rather than a specific figure, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school. Across tested grades and subjects, proficiency rates generally fall below statewide averages. In English language arts, rates by grade vary from below a fifth of students proficient in seventh grade to approaching half of students proficient in sixth grade. In math, rates are consistently low across every tested grade, with no grade reaching proficiency for even a third of students in the lower grades and only sixth grade reaching the low end of that range. Science proficiency rates are very low in both fifth and eighth grades. In the most recent year of available data, the school’s overall proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades placed it in the bottom quartile relative to other districts in Jackson County. This is a single-year snapshot with no trend data available for previous years, so it is not possible to see whether these results represent a stable pattern or a shift.

No staffing, discipline, attendance, or chronic absenteeism data were available in the source material. Special education and English learner counts were also missing. The school has no Title I status reported.

Central Point itself is a small city in the Rogue Valley, historically a crossroads and agricultural center for pears, wine, and industrial hemp, now also shaped by highway interchange development along I-5. It shares its southern border with Medford and is part of the broader Medford metropolitan area. The housing market in the zip code area shows home values around the midpoint between national and state benchmarks, and rents have been rising. The Medford district recently passed a bond for safety upgrades, classroom additions, and technology improvements, and has implemented a stricter cell phone policy for older students.

For a family considering this school, the picture is one of a small charter K-8 in a growing Rogue Valley town. The charter designation may appeal to families looking for an alternative to the district’s standard elementary and middle schools. The low state test scores across subjects are a soft spot, and a family would want to understand the school’s academic approach and how it measures learning beyond these results. Without program offerings or course access data, it is unclear what electives, enrichment, or special programs students can access, particularly in the middle school years. The school is within the Medford district, so families who continue past eighth grade would feed into district high schools.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 413%

School 13% · District 37% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 25% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 25% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 711%

School 11% · District 24% · ▼ 12 pts below district

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

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 29% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 317%

School 17% · District 36% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 425%

School 25% · District 41% · ▼ 16 pts below district

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

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 43% · ▼ 6 pts below district

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

Grade 646%

School 46% · District 41% · ▲ 5 pts above district

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

Grade 711%

School 11% · District 36% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 841%

School 41% · District 40% · ▲ 1 pts above district

even with state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 510%

School 10% · District 29% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 89%

School 9% · District 30% · ▼ 21 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

This schoolMedford SD 549C, 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.