Vernonia High School

As a minimally staffed high school in Vernonia, Oregon, Vernonia High School instructs 178 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Vernonia SD 47J. That puts it 72% smaller than the typical public school in Oregon, which averages around 630 students.

Vernonia SD 47J comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 554 students; Vernonia High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vernonia High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Columbia County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.8:1, putting Vernonia High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Columbia County's rate of about 62%.

With demographic context factored in, Vernonia High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 21.3%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the broader community, Columbia County reports that median household income runs about $87,458, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Columbia County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,932 students), of which Vernonia High School is one.

Vernonia Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Vernonia High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vernonia High School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Vernonia High School's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 186 (now 178). Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 9% across the same window.

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