Sweet Home High School

Sweet Home High School is a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in Sweet Home, Oregon, operated by Sweet Home SD 55. The school hosts 752 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 7 schools in Sweet Home SD 55 (2,249 students total), Sweet Home High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Sweet Home High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sweet Home High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.6%; this one delivers 24.6%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Linn County put median household income runs about $76,329, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Linn County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,916 students), of which Sweet Home High School is one.

Sweet Home Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sweet Home High School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Sweet Home High School's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 752). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 87% to 81% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Sweet Home High School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.