How many school days do students miss in your area? How many of the ninth graders at the local high school are passing the courses they need to stay on track? Are kids at grade level for reading and math at the neighborhood elementary school?

Those are just some of the questions addressed by data on students, schools and districts collected by the Oregon Department of Education. Every year, the agency shares information in At-A-Glance profiles, where anyone can see how a school fares on things like teacher retention, student mobility and performance on standardized tests.

Thursday, ODE shared the latest edition of this data for the 2024-2025 school year. The data release includes the latest information on Oregon school attendance and the percentage of ninth graders on track to graduate.

“We believe in the promise of a public education,” ODE director Charlene Williams said during a media webinar on Tuesday.

“But the belief must be matched by the commitment to deliver results for every student with deliberate speed in every school every day, and we know we must do better.”

More ninth graders on track

There are more Oregon ninth graders on track to graduate than ever before: 86.6%. That’s up from 84.8% last year.

When a ninth grader is “on track,” that means they’ve earned at least a quarter of the 24 credits required to graduate, making it a key indicator of whether students are likely to graduate in another three years.

“We’re seeing small but encouraging progress,” Williams said.

Williams pointed out specific student groups made gains, including Hispanic and Black students. English learners and migrant students also saw improvements.

Districts including Woodburn, Lebanon, Myrtle Point and South Wasco all saw double-digit increases in the percentage of ninth graders on track to graduate.

Among the high performers are Grant and Ida B. Wells in Portland, Sunset in Beaverton, and both public high schools in Lake Oswego, all of which had ninth-grade-on-track rates above 95%.

See how your school is doing here.

Regular attendance improves, but still a problem

More than a third of Oregon students are still missing more than 10% of the school year.

174,147 students were chronically absent last school year — 33.5% of students.

The rate of chronically absent students jumped in the years after the pandemic, reaching a high of 38% in 2022-2023.

The 2024-2025 data show increased attendance for most groups. For example, kindergarten attendance rates increased 2.5%. But still, less than 70% of kindergarteners attend school regularly.

“Regular attendance for many student groups remains concerningly low,” said Dan Farley, ODE’s assistant superintendent for the office of research, assessment, data, accountability, and reporting. “Some progress, but a lot more room for improvement.”

See how your school is doing here.

The future of Oregon data

This year’s release of At-A-Glance profile data comes on the heels of the state’s new Education Accountability Act, which aims to hold schools and districts accountable for specific outcomes. The school and district profiles now include information tied to Senate Bill 141, including:

• K-2 regular attenders
• 3rd grade English Language Arts scores
• 8th grade mathematics scores
• 9th grade on track
• 4-year graduation rates
• 5-year completion rates

“Accountability isn’t just about measuring outcomes, it’s about keeping our promise to students, celebrating improvement, and being clear about what we’ll do when we fall short,” Williams said.

“In short, we set statewide targets and we get after it.”

Currently, the way ODE collects and publishes data can be clunky and hard to parse through. House Bill 2508, passed earlier this year, directs ODE to create a new one-stop shop for student data, which all districts will use.

“We’ll essentially have a database that we can pull live data from and then we’ll be just notifying districts when we’re going to pull the specific data for the reports that we need to make,” Farley said.

The bad news? Farley said that system may not be in place until summer 2028.

News Source : https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/20/oregon-education-data-school-at-a-glance-attendance/