Summary:
ZIP code 97123 in Hillsboro is home to two public high schools serving grades 9–12, both part of Hillsboro School District 1J: Century High School, with 1,563 students, and Hillsboro High School, with 1,327 students. The district overall is ranked 69th of 141 in Oregon, at the 51st percentile with 3 stars, but that district average masks a wide gap between these two campuses.
Century High School is the stronger performer on most reported outcomes. In 2025–26 it ranked 150th of 271 schools (45th percentile, 2 stars), and it posts a 91.0% graduation rate, 36.6% chronic absenteeism, and grade-11 proficiency of 47.6% in English language arts, 16.8% in math, and 28.9% in science. Century's ELA result is above the state's 46.0%, while math and science remain below state levels. Its trend is a caution flag: rank percentile slipped from 65 to 60 to 45 over three years, and its star rating fell from 3 to 2, even as it outperforms its neighbor.
Hillsboro High School sits near the bottom of Oregon high schools here, ranked 230th of 271 (15th percentile, 1 star) and holding 1 star in all three reported years. Its 45.0% chronic absenteeism means nearly half of students are chronically absent, the highest of the two, and its grade-11 proficiency is the lowest across all three subjects: 25.5% in ELA, 13.3% in math, and 18.0% in science. Notably, the two schools serve nearly identical free/reduced-lunch populations (about 68%), yet Hillsboro High has the smaller classes (20.9 vs 23.0 students per teacher) and higher per-student spending ($19,368 vs $18,578). Both schools graduate students above the state's 83.0% rate, but chronic absenteeism and math proficiency are the key areas to watch at both.
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