Best High Schools in Riddle, OR

Riddle, Oregon has just one listed high school: Riddle High School, which serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 178 students as part of the Riddle School District 70. Because there is only one school in the city, there are no cross-school comparisons to make within Riddle; the most useful benchmarks are the district and Oregon statewide averages, plus the school's own ranking history. Test scores come from 2025–2026 OSAS in English language arts, math, and science, while graduation, attendance, spending, and staffing data are from 2024–2025.

The school's clearest strengths are in attendance and completion rather than test scores. Its graduation rate is 88.1%, above Oregon's 83.0% and identical to the district's. Chronic absenteeism is 13.3%, far below both the district's 22.1% and the state's 33.5%, meaning students are generally showing up. Class sizes are relatively small, with a student-teacher ratio of 11.5, and per-student spending is reported at $23,521. At the same time, 75.84% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, so roughly three in four students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The data set provides no state or district benchmarks for spending or staffing, so those figures cannot be compared here.

Academics are the main concern. Proficiency is below state averages in every subject and grade reported: ELA at 15.4% versus 43.8% statewide, math at 10.0% versus 32.9%, and science at 12.5% versus 30.6%. Grade 7 is the weakest point, with ELA at 8.1% against 45.3% statewide and math at 5.6% against 33.3% — the lowest figure reported. Grade 11 ELA, at 23.8%, is the strongest result but still only about half the state's 46.0%. The school ranked 245th of 271 Oregon high schools in 2025–2026 (10th percentile, 0 stars), down from the 24th percentile in 2023–2024, and its district ranks 138th of 141.