Powers High School

Located at High School Hill Rd, in Powers, Oregon, Powers High School is a rural-scale senior high that hosts 52 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Powers SD 31. Compared to the state average of about 630 students per school, that is 92% below typical.

Powers SD 31 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 114 students. Powers High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Powers High School reports that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 27% multiracial, 8% Native American. By comparison, Coos County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Coos County's rate of about 72%.

With demographic context factored in, Powers High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.0%, the actual is 17.1%, a residual of -11.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Coos County) records that the typical household earns roughly $62,143 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Coos County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,218 students), Powers High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Powers Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. On composite proficiency, Powers High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

Powers High School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Powers High School has remained close to its prior level, going from 51 students in 2018 to 52 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 6.6:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Powers High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.