Summary:
ZIP code 97394 on the central Oregon coast contains just one high school — Waldport High School — a small school serving grades 9–12 with 204 students as part of Lincoln County School District. Because there is only one high school here, the most useful comparison is between this school, its district, and the state of Oregon as a whole.
Academically, the school performs well above both its district and the state. In English language arts, 86% of students met proficiency standards, compared with 34.4% in the district and 43.8% statewide. Science is similarly strong at 67.4%, versus 24.1% district-wide and 30.6% across Oregon. Math is the relative weak spot: 37.2% proficiency is still better than the district (20.2%) and the state (32.9%), but it lags well behind the school's own reading and science results. Graduation is a clear strength at 90.2%, above the district's 88.1% and the state's 83.0%. Chronic absenteeism sits at 33.9%, better than the district's 39.1% but slightly above the state's 33.5%.
The school's statewide standing has risen sharply. It ranked 68th of 268 Oregon high schools in 2023–2024 (4 stars), then climbed to 13th of 270 and 15th of 271 in the two most recent years, earning 5 stars both times — roughly the top 5–6% of high schools in the state. Two other numbers deserve caution: per-student spending of $27,133 and a student-teacher ratio of 18.2 have no district or state comparators here, so they are descriptive only, and the reported free/reduced-lunch figure of 128.43% is not usable as a percentage and appears to be a data-quality issue. Overall, this is a small, high-performing school with standout reading and science results.
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