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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Jefferson High School this year?
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Enrollment
456
High
DISTRICT 1,332 · STATE 630
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORTLAND SD 1J·NCES 411004000964
Jefferson High School
5210 N Kerby Ave, Portland, OR 97217 · (503) 916-5180 · Multnomah County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Oregon public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 19.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
450 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 87 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 115 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 119 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 135 | 30% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
22.2%
OR avg 43.0% . +9.2pp since 2023
Math
14.6%
OR avg 31.8% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.2% | 14.6% |
| 2023-24 | 13.0% | 8.0% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.3%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jefferson High School
Jefferson High School's state test result (14.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson High School this school | 456 | 98.7% | 14.0% |
| Leodis V. McDaniel High School Portland | 1,681 | 97.8% | 29.9% |
| David Douglas High School Portland | 2,756 | 92.3% | 27.6% |
| Reynolds High School Troutdale | 2,385 | 98.8% | 19.8% |
| William P Lord High School Woodburn | 91 | 96.7% | N/A |
| Centennial High School Gresham | 1,731 | 89.8% | 22.1% |
Matched among Oregon high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jefferson High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Multnomah County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.0% | #171 of 177 | #15 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #116 of 194 ▲ 42 | #10 of 17 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #182 of 201 ▲ 12 | #17 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #119 of 257 | #15 of 24 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #8 of 171 | #1 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #11 of 171 | #7 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.7% | #23 of 207 | #4 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.5% | #4 of 102 | #2 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
456
-164 (-26%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 1,115
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 456 | 34.8 | 13.1:1 | 99% (450) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 41.7 | 12.6:1 | 62% (323) |
| 2022-23 | 606 | 47.5 | 12.8:1 | 65% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 620 | 43 | 14.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 676 | 40.2 | 16.8:1 | 63% (427) |
| 2015-16 | 522 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 68% (356) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 44 | 14.1:1 | 71% (439) |
| 2000-01 | 892 | 61 | 14.6:1 | 51% (456) |
| 1990-91 | 1,115 | 78 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 33% (676 to 456); teachers down 13% (40.2 to 34.8).
About Jefferson High School
Jefferson High School is a small high school that serves part of Portland, Oregon. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 456 students. It has 28% fewer students than the average for high schools in Oregon (about 630).
Across its 86 schools, Portland SD 1J enrolls 41,894 students. Jefferson High School is one of those schools.
At Jefferson High School, Black students make up the biggest share, 46%. Enrollment also includes 21% Hispanic, 16% White, and 13% multiracial. Among people living in Multnomah County, the Black share is about 6%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. The school has 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across high schools in Oregon, the average ratio is 19.8:1. Federal data show 99% of students (450) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Multnomah County is 75%.
Jefferson High School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 13% of Oregon public high schools.
The model predicts 24.3% for a school in Oregon with Jefferson High School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Jefferson High School posts 14.0%.
For the population of Multnomah County, the median household earns about $88,766 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 49% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Multnomah County, 169 public schools serve about 81,096 students.
Jefferson High School is about 0.5 miles from The Ivy School, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Jefferson High School is 7th of 7 on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 620 (2020-21) to 456 (2024-25). The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.4:1 to 13.1:1 over the same years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Jefferson High School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Multnomah County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
801,477
Census ACS
Median income
$88,766
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
81,096 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Portland SD 1J
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,611 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
Other schools in Portland
- David Douglas High SchoolHigh · 2,756 students
- Westview High SchoolHigh · 2,423 students
- Grant High SchoolHigh · 2,149 students
- Sunset High SchoolHigh · 1,812 students
- Franklin High SchoolHigh · 1,807 students
- Leodis V. McDaniel High SchoolHigh · 1,681 students
Other Jefferson High schools
19 other US public schools in 16 states are named Jefferson High. Jefferson High School is the 12th largest of the 20.
- Jefferson High SchoolJefferson, OR · 245 students
- Jefferson High SchoolRockford, IL · 2,173 students
- Jefferson High SchoolLafayette, IN · 2,042 students
- Jefferson High School - 67Sioux Falls, SD · 1,888 students
- Jefferson High SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 1,706 students
Nearby schools
- The Ivy School0.5 mi · 273
- Ockley Green Middle School0.6 mi · 409
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School0.6 mi · 312
- Beach Elementary School0.7 mi · 295
- Kairos PDX0.8 mi · 226
- Boise-Eliot Elementary School0.9 mi · 313
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson High SchoolHow large is Jefferson High School?
Jefferson High School enrolls approximately 456 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Jefferson High School serve?
Jefferson High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Jefferson High School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Jefferson High School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jefferson High School?
At Jefferson High School, the student body is approximately 16% White, 21% Hispanic, 46% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Jefferson High School public or private?
Jefferson High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Portland SD 1J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.