Irrigon Junior/Senior High School

Irrigon Junior/Senior High School, a modestly sized secondary school in Irrigon, Oregon, part of Morrow SD 1, instructs 345 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 630.

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

Looking at the student body, Irrigon Junior/Senior High School records that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 45% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Morrow County as a whole is about 42% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Irrigon Junior/Senior High School has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Irrigon Junior/Senior High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.4%; this one comes in at 16.6%, -19.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Morrow County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,448 per year, about 10% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Irrigon 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 Irrigon Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Irrigon Junior/Senior High School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Irrigon Junior/Senior High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Irrigon Junior/Senior High School has fell 6%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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