Dallas High School

Dallas High School is one of the well-populated four-year high schools in Dallas, Oregon, run under Dallas SD 2, with 948 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% above the state mean of about 630.

Dallas SD 2 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,953 students. Dallas High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Dallas High School shows that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with Polk County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dallas High School has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.9:1. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Polk County (around 84%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dallas High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.9%; this one comes in at 20.2%, -16.7 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Polk County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,118 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Dallas High School is one of 24 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 11,121 students).

Nearest neighbor: Whitworth Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dallas High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dallas High School has edged up 6%, going from 897 students in 2018 to 948 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 in 2025.

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