Summary:
High schools in Jefferson County School District 509J consist of two schools serving grades 9–12: Madras High School, with 768 students, and Bridges High School, with 62 students. Together they enroll 830 students, and Madras accounts for about 92.5% of that total. The district is ranked 130 of 141 Oregon districts, in the 8th percentile, with 0 stars.
Madras High School has the stronger outcomes of the two. Its 95.9% graduation rate is above both the district's 91.7% and the state's 83.0%. On 11th-grade OSAS tests it is slightly above the district in all three subjects — ELA 26.5%, math 7.7%, and science 18.2% — though all three remain far below state levels (46.0%, 22.9%, and 33.8%), especially in math. Its chronic absenteeism rate is 45.7%, higher than the district's 41.3% and the state's 33.5%. Madras ranks 239 of 271 schools in 2025–2026, in the 12th percentile with 1 star, an improvement from the 8th percentile in 2023–2024.
Bridges High School faces severe challenges. It ranks 267 of 271 schools in 2025–2026, in the 1st percentile with 0 stars, after ranking 270 of 270 in 2024–2025. Its 91.1% chronic absenteeism rate is the most striking figure here — 45.4 percentage points above Madras and 57.6 points above the state. Its test scores are the lowest in the data: ELA 16.7%, math 5.6%, and science 8.3%, with a 76.6% graduation rate. Bridges spends $41,554 per student, 88.9% more than Madras's $22,001, and has a student-teacher ratio of 8.2 versus Madras's 23.6, yet its outcomes are lower; small schools often carry higher fixed costs per student. Both schools serve overwhelmingly high-poverty populations, at 92.45% and 90.32% free/reduced lunch eligibility, so measured poverty does not explain the gap between them. With only 62 students, Bridges' percentages can shift substantially from small changes in student counts.
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