Sandy High School

Sandy High School, a high-enrollment secondary school in Sandy, Oregon, run under Oregon Trail SD 46, teaches 1,420 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so Sandy High School sits 125% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 10 schools in Oregon Trail SD 46 (4,202 students total), Sandy High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Sandy High School reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Clackamas County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sandy High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.8%; actual is 23.2%, a gap of -15.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Clackamas County indicate median household income runs about $103,517, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Clackamas County runs 118 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students), of which Sandy High School is one.

The closest other public school is Cedar Ridge Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sandy High School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sandy High School has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,418 students in 2018 to 1,420 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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