Summary:
Hood River County School District in Oregon operates just one high school — Hood River Valley High School — serving grades 9 through 12 with 1,174 students at 1220 Indian Creek Rd in Hood River. Because it is the district's only secondary school, it is both the district's flagship and its sole comprehensive high school, and district-level graduation and 11th-grade figures simply mirror the school's own numbers.
Against Oregon benchmarks, the school's strongest results come at the finish line. It graduates 89.8% of students, 6.8 points above the state's 83.0%, and its chronic absenteeism rate of 31.2% is 2.3 points better than the state's 33.5% — though nearly one in three students is still chronically absent. Tested proficiency tells a different story: Math sits at 25.7%, trailing the district (36.4%) by 10.7 points and the state (32.9%) by 7.2 points, meaning roughly three in four students are not proficient. Science at 26.9% trails the state's 11th-grade mark of 33.8% by 6.9 points, and ELA is 42.2%, 3.8 points below the state's 46.0%. The one tested bright spot is 11th-grade Math, 2.8 points above the state's 22.9%.
In state rankings the school moved from 3 stars and the 66th percentile in 2023–24 to 2 stars and the 45th percentile in 2024–25, then back to the 49th percentile in 2025–26 — essentially the median of Oregon high schools. It serves a high-need population, with 71.12% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, supported by $19,079 in per-student spending and a student-teacher ratio of 18.1. Parents should read this profile as strong on completion and attendance but lagging on proficiency, most acutely in math and science.
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