Best High Schools in Zip Code 97465

ZIP code 97465 covers Port Orford, a small coastal community in Curry County, Oregon, and it has just one high school: Pacific High School, which serves 61 students in grades 9–12 and belongs to the Port Orford-Langlois School District 2CJ. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the useful benchmarks are the district and Oregon statewide figures.

Academically, the picture is mixed. Pacific High School ranks 128th of 271 Oregon high schools — the 53rd percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026 — an improvement from 152nd of 268 and 2 stars in 2023–2024. In 11th-grade OSAS results, English language arts sits essentially at the state average (46.2% at the school versus 46.0% statewide), science is above the state (38.5% versus 33.8%), and math is the clear weakness (15.4% versus 22.9% statewide, a gap of 7.5 percentage points). Those percentages are consistent with only about 13 students being tested in each subject, where a single student shifts results by roughly 7.7 points, so small gaps can look larger than they are.

Graduation is also below the state: 76.2% at both the school and district level, compared with 83.0% statewide. Chronic absenteeism data is incomplete — the school's 2023–2024 rate was a high 43.1%, while the district's 2024–2025 rate of 21.0% is well below the state's 33.5%, and there is no school-level figure for 2024–2025. Resources per student appear substantial, with a student-teacher ratio of 7.6 and spending of $35,965 per student, which likely reflects the fixed costs of a very small rural school. One figure, free/reduced lunch reported at 173.77%, is impossible as a percentage of enrollment and should be treated as a data error. Overall, families should view these results as encouraging in science and ELA, watchful in math and graduation, and volatile given the tiny cohort size.