Glencoe High School

Set in Hillsboro, Oregon, Glencoe High School is a high-enrollment 9-12 campus, part of Hillsboro SD 1J. It enrolls 1,492 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 137% larger than the state mean of about 630.

Hillsboro SD 1J runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 18,465 students. Glencoe High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Glencoe High School logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 42% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Glencoe High School logs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.7:1. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at Glencoe High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Washington County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, Glencoe High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $107,772 per year, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), of which Glencoe High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Paul L Patterson Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glencoe High School. On composite proficiency, Glencoe High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glencoe High School has shrank 3%, going from 1,541 students in 2018 to 1,492 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 54% to 46%.

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