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Junction City High School
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Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Junction City High School
As a compact four-year high school in Junction City, Oregon, Junction City High School hosts 525 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Junction City SD 69.
Junction City SD 69 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,545 students. Junction City High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Junction City High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.8:1, putting Junction City High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 82% 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, Junction City High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.9%; this one delivers 20.4%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lane County put the typical household earns roughly $71,544 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lane County runs 117 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students), of which Junction City High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Laurel Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Junction City High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 525 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 10% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.
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