Schools · Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, OR schools

Kids attend Harrison Elementary School or Bohemia Elementary School through grade 5, then Lincoln Middle School and Cottage Grove High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

C-School Grade #42Best schools in OR (of 121)#113Highest graduation rate in OR (of 139)

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Cottage Grove’s School Grade: C-

The public schools Cottage Grove’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 80% of Oregon’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

DTest scoresCGraduation

Oregon school districts we grade (163)Better than 20%

Lower resultsHigher results

Oregon towns with similar household incomes (194)Better than 18%

Good confidence. Built on 157 tested students and a graduating class of 229; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Oregon’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Oregon only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Oregon with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

School path

Where Cottage Grove kids go to school

Grades K–5

C+Harrison Elementary School or C-Bohemia Elementary School Depends on your address South Lane School District 45J

Grades 6–8

B-Lincoln Middle School 455 students · Cottage Grove South Lane School District 45J

Grades 9–12

A-Cottage Grove High School 640 students · Cottage Grove South Lane School District 45J

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (grades K–12, South Lane School District 45J)17%

State average 30.9%

Graduation · class of 2020

79% graduate on time

Graduation rate

79%

OR: 83.1%

Graduating class

229

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #113 of 139 OR towns →

Districts

The district serving Cottage Grove

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South Lane School District 45JGrades K–12 · 9 schools · 2,697 students

$16,776 per studentOR $17,749C-

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Cottage Grove

There’s no college in Cottage Grove, but 4 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Lane Community College in Eugene, 14.8 miles away.

Lane Community CollegeUniversity or college · Public · Eugene14.8 mi4,049 students

New Hope Christian College-EugeneUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Eugene17 mi43 students

University of OregonUniversity or college · Public · Eugene17.2 mi23,117 students Bushnell UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Eugene17.4 mi693 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Cottage Grove. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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