Summary:
Nestucca Valley School District 101J has one high school, Nestucca High School, serving grades 9–12 in Cloverdale, Oregon, with 162 students.
For parents, the most important strengths are graduation and English Language Arts. In 2024–2025, the school’s graduation rate was 97.1%, well above Oregon’s 83.0%. In 2025–2026, ELA proficiency was 59.1% for All Grades and 11th Grade, above the state’s 11th-grade ELA rate of 46.0%. The main academic weak spots are math and science: math proficiency was 15.9%, below the state’s 11th-grade rate of 22.9%, and science was 24.4%, below the state’s 33.8%. Chronic absenteeism was 42.8%, higher than the district’s 36.9% and the state’s 33.5%. The school also outperformed the district aggregate in All Grades ELA (59.1% vs. 29.0%), math (15.9% vs. 13.8%), and science (24.4% vs. 15.8%), though district figures include lower grades.
The school’s rank history shows improvement, though not in a straight line: it went from 202 of 268 (25th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 to 95 of 270 (65th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, then to 135 of 271 (50th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. The district-level marker is lower at 123 of 141, 13th percentile, 1 star, which suggests the district may face challenges outside this high school. Context matters: 95.06% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $33,012, and the student-teacher ratio is 11.9. Overall, this is a small, high-poverty high school with a strong graduation rate, strong ELA results, and a much-improved statewide rank, but math, science, and chronic absenteeism remain clear areas to watch.
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