Summary
Pacific High School is a very small public high school serving grades 9–12 with 61 students in Port Orford, on Oregon's southern coast, and it belongs to the Port Orford-Langlois School District 2CJ. The school ranked 128th of 271 Oregon high schools in 2025–2026 (53rd percentile, 3 stars), up from 152nd of 268 (43rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024. That is a modest rebound: Pacific was a top-tier school in the early-to-mid 2010s, ranking at the 95th percentile with 5 stars in four separate years, before settling into a mostly mid-pack pattern since 2017–2018.
Pacific's most distinctive traits are its very small enrollment, very high per-pupil spending, and very low student-teacher ratio. In 2024–2025 it spent $35,965 per student and had 7.6 students per teacher, versus $24,329 and 12.4 at Bandon Senior High School, about 18.8 miles away with 212 students. Yet Bandon, part of Bandon School District 54, currently posts the stronger profile in every major measure shown here. Pacific's 2025–2026 results are mixed: 11th-grade English Language Arts proficiency is 46.2%, essentially level with the state's 46.0%, and science is above the state, 38.5% versus 33.8%. Math is the clear weak spot at 15.4% proficient, below the state's 22.9% and well below Bandon's 35.7%.
Graduation and attendance figures at Pacific swing widely year to year—expected in a school this small, where one or two students can shift a percentage dramatically. The most recent graduation rate, 76.2% in 2024–2025, is below the state's 83.0% and Bandon's 84.3%. Chronic absenteeism has ranged from 21.8% in 2021–2022 to 43.1% in 2023–2024; the school-level figure for 2024–2025 is not shown, though the district rate was 21.0%, below the state's 33.5%, while Bandon's 16.1% is better than both. Pacific's reported free/reduced-lunch percentages above 100% in recent years appear to be a data-quality anomaly rather than a true rate. Overall, the strengths are state-level ELA, above-state science, and small classes; the main concerns are math and year-to-year consistency.
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