St Helens High School

As a reasonably sized senior high in St Helens, Oregon, St Helens High School serves 823 students from grades 9 through 12, run under St Helens SD 502. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 630 students each, so St Helens High School sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

St Helens SD 502 runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 2,856 students. St Helens High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, St Helens High School records that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Columbia County's rate of about 62%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), St Helens High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.4%; this one delivers 26.8%.

In the broader community, Columbia County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,458 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Columbia County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,932 students), of which St Helens High School is one.

The closest other public school is McBride Elementary School, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), St Helens High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at St Helens High School has contracted 9%, going from 907 students in 2018 to 823 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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