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Enrollment
1,849
High
DISTRICT 995 · STATE 630
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOREST GROVE SD 15·NCES 410516001189
Forest Grove High School
1401 Nichols Ln, Forest Grove, OR 97116 · (503) 359-2432 · Washington County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,849 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Oregon public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public high schools
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.8:1 · STATE 19.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
1,457 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 482 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 473 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 475 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 419 | 23% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
48.3%
OR avg 43.0% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
15.7%
OR avg 31.8% . -3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.3% | 15.7% |
| 2023-24 | 47.2% | 18.9% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
33.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forest Grove High School
Forest Grove High School's state test result (33.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Grove High School this school | 1,849 | 78.8% | 33.4% |
| Hermiston High School Hermiston | 1,705 | 91.8% | 36.2% |
| Hood River Valley High School Hood River | 1,174 | 71.1% | 32.6% |
| McMinnville High School McMinnville | 2,228 | 78.1% | 37.5% |
| Hillsboro High School Hillsboro | 1,327 | 67.7% | 19.9% |
| North Salem High School Salem | 2,107 | 89.3% | 17.1% |
Matched among Oregon high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forest Grove High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.4% | #71 of 177 | #10 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.7% | #110 of 194 ▼ 27 | #13 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #68 of 201 ▲ 10 | #9 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,849 | #12 of 257 | #2 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #97 of 171 | #6 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.0% | #65 of 171 | #16 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.8% | #81 of 207 | #2 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.1% | #87 of 102 | #11 of 13 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,849
-35 (-2%) vs 2020
+60% since 1990-91, when it was 1,156
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 21.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,849 | 91.9 | 20.1:1 | 79% (1,457) |
| 2023-24 | 1,898 | 94.7 | 20.1:1 | 52% (984) |
| 2022-23 | 1,977 | 100.2 | 19.7:1 | 41% (813) |
| 2020-21 | 1,884 | 89 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,908 | 88.5 | 21.6:1 | 48% (920) |
| 2015-16 | 1,924 | 79 | 24.4:1 | 50% (962) |
| 2010-11 | 1,970 | 85 | 23.2:1 | 58% (1,149) |
| 2000-01 | 1,438 | 71 | 20.3:1 | 27% (387) |
| 1990-91 | 1,156 | 64 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Grove High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (1,908 to 1,849); teachers up 4% (88.5 to 91.9).
About Forest Grove High School
Forest Grove High School is a public large high school in Forest Grove, Oregon. Total enrollment is 1,849 students, and the grades served are 9 through 12. High schools in Oregon have about 630 students on average; enrollment here is 193% higher.
In Forest Grove SD 15, 11 schools enroll a combined 5,692 students.
More than half of the students at Forest Grove High School are Hispanic (58%). The rest of enrollment is 34% White and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Washington County's population at about 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Forest Grove High School scores 53%.
The school's 91.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1. It is about the same as the 19.8:1 average for high schools in Oregon. At Forest Grove High School, 79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Across public schools in Washington County, the average is 57%.
Among Oregon public high schools, Forest Grove High School outscored 65%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, Forest Grove High School is 1.4 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Oregon schools.
Washington County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $107,772 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 48%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Washington County's 136 public schools enroll about 79,469 students and include Forest Grove High School.
Forest Grove High School's nearest public school is Harvey Clarke Elementary School (about 0.6 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Forest Grove High School places 4th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 1,884 to 1,849. The ratio was 21.2:1 in 2020-21 and 20.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
603,947
Census ACS
Median income
$107,772
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
48%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
136
79,469 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Forest Grove SD 15
- Neil Armstrong Middle SchoolMiddle · 838 students
- Tom McCall Upper ElementaryMiddle · 673 students
- Harvey Clarke Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Echo Shaw Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
- Joseph Gale Elementary SchoolElementary · 388 students
- Cornelius Elementary SchoolElementary · 372 students
Other schools in Forest Grove
- Neil Armstrong Middle SchoolMiddle · 838 students
- Tom McCall Upper ElementaryMiddle · 673 students
- Harvey Clarke Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Joseph Gale Elementary SchoolElementary · 388 students
- Fern Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 249 students
- Forest Grove Community SchoolElementary · 202 students
Nearby schools
- Harvey Clarke Elementary School0.6 mi · 390
- Tom McCall Upper Elementary1.0 mi · 673
- Forest Grove Community School1.1 mi · 202
- Joseph Gale Elementary School1.9 mi · 388
- Community Alternative Learning Center2.1 mi · 141
- Neil Armstrong Middle School2.6 mi · 838
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Grove High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Forest Grove High School?
Forest Grove High School enrolls approximately 1,849 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Forest Grove High School serve?
Forest Grove High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Forest Grove High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Forest Grove High School is approximately 20.1:1 (92 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Forest Grove High School?
Forest Grove High School reports a student body of 34% White, 58% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Forest Grove High School in?
Forest Grove High School is part of Forest Grove SD 15.
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