Wallowa County School District performances and demographics, at a glance

By Garrett Christensen on Monday, December 1st, 2025 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News

WALLOWA COUNTY – On November 20th, 2025, the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) released the “At-A-Glance School and District Profiles” for the 2024-25 school year and updated the Oregon Online Report Card to reflect current data. These Profiles provide a snapshot of all Oregon schools and school districts compared to state averages in a number of key categories (graduate rate, attendance, 8th grade math, etc.) as well as student and staff demographics, including in Eastern Oregon.

This third examination of the At-A-Glance data for local Eastern Oregon School Districts will focus on Wallowa County. The previous look at Baker County School Districts can be found here.

To preface the data, the six categories reported by the ODE are as follows:

Regular Attenders: “Students who attended more than 90% of their enrolled school days.”
Grade 3 English Language Arts: “Students meeting state grade-level expectations.”
Grade 8 Mathematics: “Students meeting state grade-level expectations.”
On Track to Graduate: “Students earning one-quarter of graduation credits in their 9th grade year.”
On Time to Graduate: “Students earning a diploma within four years. Cohort includes students who were first-time ninth graders in 2020-21 graduating in 2023-24.”
Five-Year Completion: “Students earning a high school diploma or GED within five years. Cohort Includes students who were first- time ninth graders in 2019-20 finishing in 2023-24.”

As noted, the “On Time to Graduate” and “Five-Year Completion” categories are for 2023-2024 graduate rates, while all other categories reflect 2024-2025 school year data. At-A-Glace data from all Wallowa County school districts, compared to the state average for the respective year, is as follows (student enrollment for each district also included for reference):

Student Enrolment (2024-2025 School Year)

Joseph: 263
Enterprise: 424
Wallowa: 197
Troy: 4

(Note that Troy reportedly only had 4 students for the 2024-2025 school year and, as such, will not be included in the comparison beyond the enrolment category due to insufficient data.)

Regular Attenders

State Average: 67%
Joseph:
- % of Students: 82%
- Change for previous school year: 4% Increase
Enterprise:
- % of Students:70%
- Change for previous school year: 5% Decrease
Wallowa:
- % of Students: 74%
- Change for previous school year: 7% Decrease

Grade 3 English Language Arts

State Average: 41%
Joseph:
- % of Students: 72%
- Change for previous school year: No Change
Enterprise:
- % of Students: 51%
- Change for previous school year: 1% Increase
Wallowa:
- % of Students: 50%
- Change for previous school year: 10% Increase

Grade 8 Mathematics

State Average: 29%
Joseph:
- % of Students: 32%
- Change for previous school year: 3% Decrease
Enterprise:
- % of Students: 29%
- Change for previous school year: No Change
Wallowa:
- % of Students: 33%
- Change for previous school year: 9% Decrease

On-Track to Graduate

State Average: 87%
Joseph:
- % of Students: >95%
- Change for previous school year: No Change
Enterprise:
- % of Students: 64%
- Change for previous school year: 24% Decrease
Wallowa:
- % of Students: 92%
- Change for previous school year: 5% Increase

On-Time Graduation

State Average: 82%
Joseph:
- % of Students: 93%
- Change for previous school year: 7% Decrease
Enterprise:
- % of Students: 68%
- Change for previous school year: 26% Decrease
Wallowa:
- % of Students: 88%
- Change for previous school year: 18% Increase

Five-Year Completion

State Average: 87%
Joseph:
- % of Students: 100%
- Change for previous school year: 4% Increase
Enterprise:
- % of Students: 97%
- Change for previous school year: 7% Increase
Wallowa:
- % of Students: 64%
- Change for previous school year: 36% Decrease

Alongside attendance, academic, and graduation benchmarks, the reports also provide a snapshot of student and staff demographics. Due to the relatively small number of total students in Eastern Oregon’s smaller schools, data is not available in all demographic categories compared to academic ones, but information was provided on the five following major categories:

Ever English Learners (I.E. students ever at one point classified as English learners)
Students with disabilities
Students experience poverty
Languages spoken
Mobile students

For clarification, the Oregon Department of Education defines “Mobile Students” under the following criteria per a previous research brief on students experiencing foster placement:

First enrollment of the year occurred after the first school day in October
Last enrollment ended before the first school day in May and the student did not graduate and was not deceased
The student had an enrollment gap of at least ten days between two records for the same school during which they were not enrolled in any public Oregon K-12 institution and did not transfer to a private or out-of-state school
The student had enrollments at more than one attending school

Percentages for the additional demographic categories (along with student enrolment for 2024-2025) is as follows:

Ever English Learners

Joseph: <10% or data unavailable
Enterprise: <10% or data unavailable
Wallowa: <10% or data unavailable

Students with Disabilities

Joseph: 15%
Enterprise: 20%
Wallowa: 18%

Mobile Students

Joseph: 8%
Enterprise: 8%
Wallowa: 10%

Students Experiencing Poverty

Joseph: 28%
Enterprise: 19%
Wallowa: 30%

Languages Spoken

Joseph: 4
Enterprise: 6
Wallowa: 1

As a reminder, the data discussed refers to the 2024-2025 school year and, in some specific categories, the 2023-2024 school year. Current data on the 2025-2026 school year has NOT yet been compiled for At-A-Glance reports. The full At-A-Glance reports/school district profiles, along with district online report cards and other Oregon School district data, are available at: https://www.oregon.gov/ode/schools-and-districts/reportcards/Pages/default.aspx