Summary:
ZIP code 97750 in Mitchell, Oregon is served by a single public high school, Insight School of Oregon Painted Hills, a grades 7–12 school with 211 students in Mitchell School District 55. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no local peer set; the most useful comparisons are to its district and to Oregon statewide figures. Its district ranks 18th of 141 in Oregon, at the 87th percentile with 4 stars.
The school's academic trajectory is strongly positive. Its statewide rank improved from 169th of 268 (37th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 90th of 270 (67th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, and then to 22nd of 271 (92nd percentile, 5 stars) in 2025–2026—a 147-position gain and a move from 2 to 5 stars over two years. All-grade OSAS proficiency beats the state in English Language Arts (45.8% vs. 43.8%), math (47.9% vs. 32.9%), and science (46.6% vs. 30.6%). Eleventh-grade results are especially strong: 65% ELA, 50% math, and 55% science. Eighth-grade math is 55%, well above the district's 36.6% and the state's 30%. However, 7th-grade ELA is just 7.7%, versus 45.3% statewide, and 8th-grade ELA is 31.6% against 41.5% statewide, so the all-grade averages mask sharp grade-level differences.
Completion and attendance measures are the clearest concerns. The graduation rate is 50.0%, compared with 58.3% in the district and 83.0% statewide, and chronic absenteeism is 69.6%, far above the district's 52.1% and the state's 33.5%. Free/reduced lunch status is not reported. Reported spending is $288 per student, an unusually low figure that likely reflects a data limitation or nonstandard accounting and should be treated cautiously, and the student-teacher ratio of 27.6 is high if read as a conventional caseload measure. Overall, the school shows high academic upside alongside significant completion and attendance challenges.
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