Gaston Jr/Sr High School

As a micro-enrollment high school in Gaston, Oregon, Gaston Jr/Sr High School caters to 246 students from grades 7 through 12, run under Gaston SD 511J. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 630 students.

Within Gaston SD 511J, which oversees 2 schools and 474 students, Gaston Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gaston Jr/Sr High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, On paper, Gaston Jr/Sr High School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gaston Jr/Sr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 25.3%, a residual of -13.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $107,772, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Washington County's 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), Gaston Jr/Sr High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gaston Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gaston Jr/Sr High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 294 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 13% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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