Graduation rates rebound in Tillamook

Graduation rates in each of Tillamook County’s three school districts improved in the 2022-2023 school year and exceeded the statewide average four-year graduation rate, according to numbers released by the Oregon Department of Education on January 25.

Nestucca Valley School District had the highest graduation rate in the county, with 95.1% of students receiving a diploma after four years last year, while 86.1% of Neah-Kah-Nie and 82.4% of Tillamook students did the same.

Across the state, 81.3% of students who had attended four years of high school graduated in the 2022-2023 school year, a drop of more than two percentage points from the previous year and 1.3% below the average over the past five years.

In contrast, Tillamook County students had their most successful year since the 2019-2020 school year, with 85.3% of all students graduating in four years last year.

Tillamook High School saw a graduation rate of 82.4%, up from 80.3% the year prior, but still below rates achieved from 2018-2020, when more than 86% of students graduated in four years.

Neah-Kah-Nie’s graduation rate rebounded to 86.1% after just 77.8% of students earned a diploma after four years in the 2021-2022 school year.

Nestucca High School maintained its recent history of high four-year graduation rates, topping 90% for the third time in the past five years, and narrowly edging its mark of 95% in 2019-2020.