Summary:
Sandy, Oregon has a single public high school: Sandy High School, which serves grades 9–12 with an enrollment of 1,420 students and belongs to Oregon Trail School District 46. Because it is the only high school in the city, it is the sole option and the sole comparison point for local families.
The school's strongest result is its graduation rate: 96.3% in 2024–2025, matching the district and 13.3 percentage points above the state's 83.0%. Test proficiency tells a different story. In 2025–2026, 11th-grade ELA proficiency was 28.6% and math proficiency was 15.3%, with science at 21.2% — all below state levels of 46.0%, 22.9%, and 33.8% respectively. Math is the lowest absolute result. Chronic absenteeism is also a concern at 42.4%, above the district's 32.3% and the state's 33.5%. Roughly 61.27% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $18,839, and the student-teacher ratio is 24.1, implying about 59 teachers.
School-level ranking is another mixed signal. In 2025–2026, Sandy High ranked 217th of 271 schools (20th percentile, 1 star), down from 180th of 270 (33rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025, following a 2023–2024 rank of 211th of 268 (21st percentile, 1 star), so the one-year improvement did not hold. Meanwhile, the district is rated highly overall — 15th of 141 districts, 89th percentile, 5 stars — though that district figure includes elementary and middle grades. For families comparing high school performance specifically, the 11th-grade numbers are the most relevant. In short, Sandy High graduates students at a notably high rate but posts low proficiency and high absenteeism relative to the state.
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