Milwaukie High School

Milwaukie High School is a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Milwaukie, Oregon, one of the schools within North Clackamas SD 12. The school works with 874 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 39% above the state mean of about 630.

Across the 31 schools in North Clackamas SD 12 (16,837 students total), Milwaukie High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Milwaukie High School logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 37% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Clackamas County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Milwaukie High School has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Milwaukie High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Clackamas County's rate of about 50%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Milwaukie High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 32.4%; actual is 16.4%, a gap of -16.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Clackamas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $103,517 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which Milwaukie High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Milwaukie Academy of the Arts, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Milwaukie High School. On composite proficiency, Milwaukie High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 931 students in 2018 compared to 874 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 45% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Milwaukie High School typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.