SALEM — The 37,700 students that made up Oregon’s 2023 high school graduating class posted the second-highest four-year graduation rate — 81.3% — ever recorded by the state.
The Oregon Department of Education, which presented the statewide graduation rates Tuesday, Jan. 23, stressed that the Class of 2023 shouldered the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic as those students were starting high school when the pandemic began.
Peter Rudy, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Education, said the 81.3% graduation rate is especially noteworthy given all the challenges the students faced from the onset of their freshman year.
ENTERPRISE — In an effort to resolve disputes that surfaced during a Jan. 15 Enterprise School Board meeting, district officials presented a plan for access to district facilities to a
This year, mercifully, the forests of Wallowa County were not besieged with massive wildfires. And there was no natural disaster on the level of the August 2022 hailstorm that pummeled