Summary
Bend Senior High School is a public high school serving grades 9–12 with 1,204 students in Bend, Oregon, part of the Bend-LaPine Administrative School District 1. While the district ranks 34th of 141 in Oregon (76th percentile, 4 stars), Bend Senior ranks 241st of 271 high schools in 2025–26 (11th percentile, 1 star). Its rank history shows a long decline: it sat at the 86th percentile with 4 stars in 2013–14, briefly improved to the 31st percentile in 2023–24, then dropped to the 2nd percentile in 2024–25 and the 11th percentile in 2025–26.
Academically, Bend Senior is the lowest-performing comprehensive high school in its district on all three OSAS subjects in 11th grade. ELA proficiency is 24%, compared with 35.3% in the district and 46% in the state; science is 16.9%, versus 24.2% district and 33.8% state; and math is under 5%, against 21.3% district and 22.9% state. Nearby comprehensive high schools post higher results, including Mountain View Senior High School (ELA 57.2%, math 35.4%, science 34.5%), Summit High School (29.6%, 24%, 27.5%), and Caldera High School (28.1%, 17.6%, 17.8%). The Mountain View comparison stands out because the two schools have similar enrollment, free/reduced lunch rates (48.92% versus 48.34%), per-student spending ($16,771 versus $17,332), and student-teacher ratios (22.7 versus 22.4).
Bend Senior's 2024–25 graduation rate is 82.7%, below the district (85.8%) and state (83.0%), and down from 89.7% in 2020–21. Chronic absenteeism is 35.4%, above district and state averages but the lowest among all listed nearby high schools, and improved from 48.9% in 2021–22. Subgroup rankings show low effectiveness across most student groups, pointing to broad systemic challenges rather than an isolated issue. Test scores are from 2025–26; graduation, absenteeism, spending, and student-teacher ratio are from 2024–25.
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