West Albany High School

Located at 1130 Queen Ave SW, in Albany, Oregon, West Albany High School is a sprawling high school that educates 1,297 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Greater Albany Public SD 8J. Compared to the state average of about 630 students per school, that is 106% larger than typical.

Greater Albany Public SD 8J comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 8,771 students; West Albany High School is among them.

Demographically, West Albany High School logs that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Linn County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at West Albany High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Albany High School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.2%; this one delivers 55.2%, a residual of +23.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Linn County shows median household income runs about $76,329, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Linn County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,916 students), West Albany High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Memorial Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Albany High School. On composite proficiency, West Albany High School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Albany High School has fell 4%, going from 1,346 students in 2018 to 1,297 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 78% to 72% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.