Crater High School

Crater High School is a 9–12 comprehensive high school of 1,454 students in Central Point, Oregon, and the only high school in Central Point School District 6, so at the high-school level school and district results are essentially the same. It ranks 120th of 271 Oregon high schools (56th percentile, 3 stars) for 2025–26, while its district ranks 85th of 141 — the high school is the stronger part of its system. About 78.75% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, spending is $19,628 per student (the median among the nearby schools compared here), and the student–teacher ratio is 21.7:1. Its four-year graduation rate is 87.8%, above the state (83.0%) and its district (80.6%).

Crater is unusually lopsided by subject. In 11th-grade English language arts, 54.8% of students met proficiency — third-best of the 11 nearby schools compared, behind only Ashland High School (62.7%) and Rogue River Junior/Senior High (62.1%), and 8.8 points above the state. Math is the clear weakness: 15.1% proficiency, eighth of 11 and 7.8 points below the state, with only small alternative and charter schools scoring lower. Science lands modestly above average at 35.6%. The roughly 40-point gap between Crater's ELA and math results is the widest of any school in this group, which points to a targeted math instructional gap rather than a broadly failing school — especially given the healthy graduation rate.

Ranked against other Oregon schools serving similar populations, Crater's Hispanic students (66th percentile) and low-income students (61st percentile) sit above the school's own 56th-percentile standing — a notable equity strength. Homeless students rank 16th percentile, the school's clearest gap, though that is a small and highly mobile group. Among the region's large comprehensive high schools, Crater posts the highest ELA proficiency (54.8% versus 45.5% at South Medford High School and 45.2% at North Medford High School) and spends more per student than either, but has the lowest math proficiency. Some data is missing — notably chronic absenteeism — and should be treated as unknown rather than as a weakness.