Summary:
John Day, Oregon has one listed public school, Grant Union Junior/Senior High School, a combined junior/senior high serving grades 7–12 with 206 students in John Day School District 3.
Because it is the only school, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local campuses. The most striking pattern is the gap between engagement and academics. The school’s graduation rate is 88.9%, above Oregon’s 83.0%, and chronic absenteeism is 30.8%, below the state’s 33.5%. Yet academic proficiency is low: ELA all grades is 8.5%, versus 14.8% in the district and 43.8% in the state; science all grades is 7%, versus 8.9% district and 30.6% state; and math all grades is under 5%, versus 11.7% district and 32.9% state. The highest exact school score shown is 18.2% in 11th-grade ELA, still below the state’s 46%. Rank history is volatile: the school went from rank 20 of 268, 93rd percentile, 5 stars in 2023–2024 to rank 261 of 271, 4th percentile, 0 stars in 2025–2026.
Test scores are from 2025–2026; graduation, attendance, lunch, spending, and staffing data are from 2024–2025. The district is ranked 135th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 4th percentile with 0 stars. About 72.33% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $32,214, and the student-teacher ratio is 12:1, implying roughly 17 teachers. Parents should note that several scores are reported as under 5%, not exact values, so those gaps cannot be precisely calculated. Overall, the data show a school with relative strengths in graduation and attendance but very low proficiency in core subjects compared with district and state benchmarks.
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