Best High Schools in Zip Code 97322

ZIP code 97322, in Albany, Oregon, contains four schools classified as high schools, serving grades 6 through 12 across two districts, and they range from a large comprehensive campus of 1,466 students to a program of just 10. South Albany High School (grades 9–12) dominates the area, holding 89.1% of the ZIP's listed high-school enrollment, followed by Albany Options School (9–12, 136 students). The other two, Three Lakes High School (6–12, 33 students) and Riverside High School (10–12, 10 students), belong to the ODE YCEP District and are very small. The two Greater Albany Public School District 8J schools together enroll 1,602 students, or 97.4% of the total.

South Albany's results are mixed. Its English Language Arts proficiency of 49.7% is above the district's 47.8% and the state's 43.8%, and its graduation rate of 83.9% is essentially even with the state's 83.0%. But math proficiency is 11.6% against the state's 32.9%, science is 20.7% against 30.6%, and chronic absenteeism is 47.6% versus the state's 33.5%. It ranked 183rd of 271 schools in 2025–2026, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars — an improvement from the 23rd percentile a year earlier. Albany Options shows the opposite pattern on nearly every measure: 8.3% in ELA, under 5% in math and science, a 41.3% graduation rate, and chronic absenteeism of 80.0%, far above the state's 33.5%. Its rank improved to the 17th percentile in 2024–2025 but remains near the bottom.

The two ODE YCEP schools post the lowest graduation rates in the ZIP — 36.4% at Three Lakes and 33.3% at Riverside — well below both the state's 83.0% and their district's 51.1%, though their graduating classes are tiny and rates can swing sharply year to year. Three Lakes reports no school-level test scores because the state suppressed them, and its 2024–2025 chronic absenteeism figure is not reported; its 2023–2024 value was 16.0%. It has the highest known free/reduced lunch rate at 90.91%. Riverside has no test scores, rank history, chronic absenteeism, free/reduced lunch, or spending data in this record, so parents should seek more information directly from the school.