Summary:
ZIP code 97381 is home to a single public high school, Silverton High School, which serves grades 9–12 with 1,262 students as part of Silver Falls School District 4J. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare it against; the meaningful benchmarks are the district and Oregon state averages. Silverton High is a 4-star school in 2025–2026, ranked 61 out of 271 Oregon high schools, placing it in the 77th percentile. Its district is also 4-star, ranked 28 out of 141 districts, in the 80th percentile.
Academically, the school's standout strengths are science and English language arts. Science proficiency is 50.0%, far above the state's 30.6% across all grades and 33.8% in 11th grade. ELA stands at 57.6%, which is 13.8 points above the state in all grades and 11.6 points above the state in 11th grade. Mathematics is the soft spot: 28.0% proficiency trails the district's 37.0% and the state's 32.9% in the all-grades comparison, though in the more comparable 11th-grade view that 28.0% equals the district and is above the state's 22.9%. The graduation rate is strong at 90.1%, equal to the district and 7.1 points above the state's 83.0%, while chronic absenteeism is 37.9%, higher than both the district's 30.1% and the state's 33.5%.
About 50.16% of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending is $16,512, and the student-teacher ratio is 23.3:1; no district or state benchmarks for these figures are provided. Rank history is volatile: 79/268 (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024, 137/270 (49th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025, and 61/271 (77th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026, making the latest year both a rebound and slightly better than two years ago.
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