New Urban High School

New Urban High School is a modestly sized four-year high school in Milwaukie, Oregon, run under North Clackamas SD 12. The school caters to 320 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 49% smaller than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 630 students.

North Clackamas SD 12 runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 16,837 students. New Urban High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, New Urban High School shows that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 19.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Clackamas County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, New Urban High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.8%; actual is 13.3%, a gap of -40.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Clackamas County reports that median household earnings sit near $103,517, roughly 41% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. New Urban High School is one of 118 public schools in Clackamas County (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students).

The closest other public school is Oak Grove Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Urban High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts New Urban High School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 104%: 157 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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