Updated: See which high schools the state rates in the two lowest performance tiers.



Update as of 2 p.m. Friday: The Oregon Department of Education has now posted searchable, sortable databases containing the full data sets

Under public pressure, the Oregon Department of Education released performance ratings for 1,200 schools Wednesday.

But it did so in a manner that requires downloading and opening 1,233 separate documents to see which schools have the best and worse ratings. On the state website, even comparing the ratings for all schools in a single district is unwieldy.

So the data team at The Oregonian/OregonLive worked late into the night to do the work for you. In our performance ratings look-up system, it's easy to find any school, to see all schools in a particular district and to find those with the best and worst ratings statewide.

See performance ratings for every Oregon public school

Data specialist Melissa Lewis wrote the code that pulled the information from those 1,200-plus .pdfs. Developer Mark Friesen created the interface that allows you to easily search for and see the color-coded results.

The state rated schools on key metrics, using a scale of 1 to 5. A Level 1 rating means the school performed in the bottom 10 percent statewide; Level 2 means the school performed below the state average; Level 5 signifies the school is already performing at the target the state has set for 2025.

The metrics the state uses are:

>> The percentage of students who scored proficient on state English and math tests

>> The share of students who came to school more than 90 percent of the time

>> How much growth the typical student made from year to year in English and math; that is calculated for elementary and middle schools, but not for high schools

>> And, for high schools only, how many freshmen a school kept on track for graduation and what percentage of students it ushered to a diploma in four and in five years

State schools chief Colt Gill quietly decided this month to delay releasing the school performance ratings for three weeks, meaning they would be disclosed after the closely fought governor's race. After The Oregonian/OregonLive revealed his delay plans this week, public pressure prompted Brown and Gill to reverse course and immediately make them public.

The sudden pivot left the Oregon Department of Education unable to provide the usual helpful summaries and searchable databases it normally provides when releasing school performance data, Gill and others said. After Gill declined Wednesday to say how quickly his department would generate those important tools, The Oregonian/OregonLive data team accomplished much of that work in half a day.

-- Betsy Hammond