Summary:
Harrisburg, Oregon is a small city served by three public schools, all within Harrisburg School District 7J: Harrisburg Elementary School (grades K–4, 338 students), Harrisburg Middle School (grades 5–8, 263 students), and Harrisburg High School (grades 9–12, 260 students) — 861 students total. The district is ranked 124 of 141 Oregon districts, at the 12th percentile with 1 star, so all three schools share a weak district context. Free and reduced lunch rates are nearly identical across the three schools, 73.38% to 74.23%, so that factor does not explain the differences between them.
Harrisburg Elementary School is the relative standout: ranked 405 of 709, 43rd percentile, 2 stars, and the only school above the district in both all-grade ELA (41.9%) and math (32.3%). Its chronic absenteeism, 31.2%, is better than both the district's 36.4% and the state's 33.5%. Still, it slipped from 60th–62nd percentile with 3 stars in the prior two years. Harrisburg Middle School is stable but low — 288 of 371, 22nd percentile, 1 star, after 17th percentile the two prior years — with ELA 29.5% and math 19.6%. Its science score, 22.0%, is above the district's 18.6% but below the state's 30.6%.
Harrisburg High School is the biggest concern: 264 of 271, 3rd percentile, 0 stars, down sharply from 47th percentile with 2 stars two years earlier. It has the lowest proficiency in the city — ELA 17.0%, math 6.5%, science 9.8% — plus 46.3% chronic absenteeism and a 74.1% graduation rate against the state's 83.0%. It spends the most per student, $18,704, and has the smallest classes, a 13.0 student-teacher ratio, without better outcomes. Overall, performance declines as grade level rises.
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