Hermiston High School

Hermiston High School is a 9-12 campus of sprawling scale in Hermiston, Oregon, overseen by Hermiston SD 8, instructing 1,705 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Hermiston High School sits 171% bigger than that benchmark.

Hermiston High School is one of 9 schools operated by Hermiston SD 8, a district that instructs 5,320 students overall.

Demographically, Hermiston High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 35% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Umatilla County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hermiston High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Umatilla County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,728 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Hermiston High School is one of 35 public schools in Umatilla County (combined enrollment of about 13,143 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Park Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hermiston High School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Hermiston High School's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,637 (now 1,705). Over the same period, the White share fell from 47% to 35%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 in 2025.

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