Heppner Junior/Senior High School

Heppner Junior/Senior High School is one of the very small secondary schools in Heppner, Oregon, overseen by Morrow SD 1, with 171 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Heppner Junior/Senior High School sits 73% leaner than that benchmark.

Morrow SD 1 comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 2,234 students; Heppner Junior/Senior High School is among them.

Demographically, Heppner Junior/Senior High School shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Heppner Junior/Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of +4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Morrow County indicate the typical household earns roughly $75,448 per year, about 10% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Heppner Junior/Senior High School is one of 10 public schools in Morrow County (combined enrollment of about 2,347 students).

The closest other public school is Heppner Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. On composite proficiency, Heppner Junior/Senior High School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Heppner Junior/Senior High School has stayed largely flat, going from 169 students in 2018 to 171 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 8% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Heppner Junior/Senior High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.