Summary:
Zip code 97868 — the small rural community of Pilot Rock, Oregon — is home to exactly one high school: Pilot Rock High School, a combined middle/high school serving grades 7 through 12 with 149 students. It is the only secondary school in Pilot Rock School District 2, so this is a single-school picture rather than a comparison. Because 149 students are spread across six grades, each grade level holds roughly 20–30 students — small enough that one student can move a percentage by several points. Every test figure in this data feed is an exact number; nothing was suppressed.
The school's clearest strengths are completion and the middle grades. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 100.0%, well above Oregon's 83.0%. Grade 8 is the strongest cohort, beating the state in English language arts (43.5% proficient vs. 41.5%) and math (39.1% vs. 30.0%, a 9.1-point advantage), with science essentially at the state line. Across all-grade averages the school also outperforms its own district in ELA, math and science — the secondary program is effectively pulling district averages up.
Its weaknesses are concentrated, not spread evenly. Only 10.7% of 11th graders were proficient in math versus 22.9% statewide — a 12.2-point gap and the weakest number in the record, meaning roughly one in nine juniors met the standard. Grade 7 ELA lags the state by 13.3 points. Chronic absenteeism is 32.4% — slightly better than the state's 33.5% but worse than the district's 27.6% — and nearly one in three students is chronically absent. Spending is generous at $26,398 per student with a 10.6:1 student–teacher ratio, yet proficiency sits below state in every subject. Rank history is volatile, swinging from the 89th to the 54th to the 30th percentile in three years. In short: a well-funded, high-poverty rural school that graduates students at a far higher rate than the state and shines in grade 8, but needs attention on junior-year math, 7th-grade reading and attendance.
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