Summary:
Harney County Union High School District 1J is a small rural district in eastern Oregon with just two schools: Crane Union High School, a grades 9–12 high school with 96 students, and Silvies River Charter School, an alternative K–12 school with 1,219 students. The district is ranked 30 of 141 in Oregon, in the 79th percentile with 4 stars — but that district average hides a sharp split between two very different schools.
Crane Union High School is the standout. In 2025–2026 it ranked 2nd of 271 Oregon high schools, in the 99th percentile with 5 stars. Its English language arts proficiency is 90.5% (state: 43.8%) and math is 65% (state: 32.9%), with science at least 95% (state: 30.6%). Its graduation rate is 92.6% (state: 83.0%), and chronic absenteeism is 31.5%, below the state's 33.5%. About 66.67% of its students qualify for free/reduced lunch, so these results come alongside high poverty indicators. One caution: its rank has swung widely — 14th of 268 in 2023–2024 and 78th of 270 in 2024–2025 — which is typical for a school this small.
Silvies River Charter School is roughly 12.7 times larger, and its results sit closer to state averages: ELA 43.9%, math 23.5% (below the 32.9% state figure), and science 31%. Its graduation rate is 92.5%, but chronic absenteeism is 57.2%, far above the state. Because Silvies enrolls most of the district's students, district averages largely reflect it. Silvies' reported $321 per-student spending and 29.7 student-teacher ratio, versus Crane's $58,518 and 12.5, likely reflect different reporting scopes rather than a true resource comparison. Free/reduced lunch is not reported for Silvies, so its poverty context is unknown.
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