Summary:
Banks School District 13 has just one public high school — Banks High School — serving grades 9–12 to about 397 students in this small Oregon district, which means families here have a single local option and the most useful comparisons are the school against state averages and its own past performance. The district overall is rated 39th of 141 Oregon districts, at the 72nd percentile with 4 stars, and the high school currently ranks higher than that: 14th of 271 high schools statewide, the 95th percentile, with 5 stars.
The most important story is how quickly Banks High School has climbed. It ranked 189th of 268 (29th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024, then 136th of 270 (50th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025, and 14th of 271 (95th percentile, 5 stars) in 2025–2026 — moving from 2 stars to 5 stars in the latest year. Graduation is exceptionally strong at 98.1% in 2024–2025, compared with 83.0% statewide. Test results are well above state averages in every subject: all-grade ELA 71.7% vs. 43.8% state, math 48.3% vs. 32.9%, and science 60.0% vs. 30.6%. In 11th grade, where school and Banks School District 13 figures are identical, the school still far exceeds state results in ELA (71.7% vs. 46.0%), math (48.3% vs. 22.9%), and science (60.0% vs. 33.8%).
Two items are worth watching. Math is the relative internal lag at 48.3%, below ELA and science, though still 25.4 points above the state’s 11th-grade math figure. Chronic absenteeism is 31.2%, better than the state’s 33.5% but slightly above the district’s 30.1%. For context, 30.23% of students are in the free/reduced-price lunch program, per-student spending is $17,010, and the student-teacher ratio is 20.4 — roughly 19–20 teacher equivalents. Overall, this is a small, high-performing high school with very strong current outcomes.
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