Nestucca High School

Nestucca High School operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in Cloverdale, Oregon, operated by Nestucca Valley SD 101J. Current enrollment sits at 162 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 630 students per school, that is 74% smaller than typical.

Nestucca High School is one of 2 schools operated by Nestucca Valley SD 101J, a district that educates 498 students overall.

Demographically, Nestucca High School lists that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Tillamook County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at Nestucca High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Tillamook County's rate of about 82%.

After controlling for student poverty, Nestucca High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.7%; this one delivers 29.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Tillamook County put the typical household earns roughly $69,105 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Tillamook County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,220 students), of which Nestucca High School is one.

Nestucca K8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nestucca High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 31.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nestucca High School has contracted 30%, going from 232 students in 2018 to 162 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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