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Canby High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Canby High School
Canby High School is a secondary school of big scale in Canby, Oregon, one of the schools within Canby SD 86, serveing 1,402 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Canby High School sits 123% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 8 schools in Canby SD 86 (4,134 students total), Canby High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Canby High School records that 60% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.
On the income-and-resources front, Canby High School lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.9:1. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at Canby High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Clackamas County's rate of about 50%.
After controlling for student poverty, Canby High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 30.1%, a residual of -8.2 points.
In the broader community, census data for Clackamas County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,517 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which Canby High School is one.
Howard Eccles Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Canby High School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Canby High School has showed little movement, going from 1,425 students in 2018 to 1,402 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 64% to 60% across the same window.
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