Oregon Student Health Survey (SHS) Data Portal

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2022 SHS Data Not Directly Comparable to 2020 SHS Results

As part of our continued efforts to modernize the survey, we began implementing community partner recommendations to improve the survey starting with the 2022 SHS. One recommended change was to include the following additional response categories for every question in 2022:

  • I am not sure
  • I don’t know what this question is asking
  • I prefer not to answer

The following example highlights the difference in the questions in 2020 compared with 2022:

Would you say that in general your emotional and mental health is:
2020 SHS 2022 SHS
Excellent Excellent
Very good Very good
Good Good
Fair Fair
Poor Poor
  I am not sure
  I don’t know what this question is asking
  I prefer not to answer

The inclusion of these three additional response categories impacts the denominator and resulting percentages so that 2022 results are not strictly comparable to the 2020 SHS results. You can still access the 2020 SHS data through this portal, but keep in mind that this impacts the ability to look at trends.

Methodology

The SHS is a comprehensive, school-based, anonymous and voluntary health survey of 6th, 8th and 11th graders that is administered in the fall of even-numbered years. It is a key part of statewide efforts to help local schools and communities ensure that all Oregon youth are healthy and successful learners.

The 2022 SHS was designed to be administered online to 6th, 8th and 11th graders statewide in one classroom period to provide state- and county-level estimates. The sampling frame is based on the Oregon Department of Education’s (ODE) Fall Membership Report for 2020-2021and consists of public schools in Oregon with 6th, 8th and 11th grade enrollment of at least 10 students within the grade.

The sampling frame is based on the Oregon Department of Education’s (ODE) Fall Membership Report for 2020-2021and consists of public schools in Oregon with 6th, 8th and 11th grade enrollment of at least 10 students within the grade. The following types of state-run schools and those with no associated school district were excluded from the sampling frame:

  • Juvenile justice facilities
  • Treatment facilities
  • Boarding schools

Participation is Voluntary and Highly Encouraged

The SHS is not mandatory. Because the survey covers a comprehensive range of health-related topics, some of the questions can be considered sensitive. There are opportunities for districts, parents/guardians and students to choose whether or not to participate.

SHS uses an active notification/passive consent model for the survey. Once district approval is received, schools send Parental Notification letters to parents and guardians at least two weeks prior to survey administration to inform them of the upcoming survey and provide an opportunity to opt their student out of the survey. The parent letters were available in English, Spanish, Russian, simplified Chinese, Vietnamese and Somali. Students can also choose to opt themselves out of the survey or to skip over any question they do not want to answer.

Nearly 46,000 6th, 8th and 11th graders participated in the 2022 SHS.

2022 SHS Participation
Districts 85
Schools 327
6th Graders 16,598
8th Graders 16,316
11th Graders 12,685
Total Students 45,599

Participating Districts by County

A total of 85 districts in 29 counties chose to administer the 2022 SHS.

Baker Hood River Morrow
Baker School District 5J Hood River County SD Morrow School District 1
 
Benton (did not participate) Jackson Multnomah
Phoenix-Talent School District 4 Parkrose School District 3
Clackamas Ashland School District 5 Reynolds School District 7
West Linn-Wilsonville School District 3J Prospect School District 59 Gresham-Barlow School District 10J
Lake Oswego School District 7J Centennial School District 28J
North Clackamas School District 12 Jefferson (did not participate) Riverdale School District 51J
Oregon Trail School District 46
Colton School District 53 Josephine Polk
Oregon City School District 62 Grants Pass School District 7 Dallas School District 2
Estacada School District 108 Three Rivers/Josephine County SD Central School District 13J
Gladstone School District 115
Klamath Sherman
Clatsop Klamath County SD Sherman County SD
Seaside School District 10
Lake Tillamook
Columbia Lake County School District 7 Tillamook School District 9
Scappoose School District 1J Neah-Kah-Nie School District 56
Clatskanie School District 6J Lane Nestucca Valley School District 101J
Vernonia School District 47J Pleasant Hill School District 1
St Helens School District 502 Springfield School District 19 Umatilla
Fern Ridge School District 28J Umatilla School District 6R
Coos Mapleton School District 32 Hermiston School District 8
Powers School District 31 Creswell School District 40 Pendleton School District 16
Bandon School District 54 Bethel School District 52 Stanfield School District 61
McKenzie School District 68
Crook (did not participate) Junction City School District 69 Union
Siuslaw School District 97J La Grande School District 1
Curry North Powder School District 8J
Port Orford-Langlois School District 2CJ Lincoln Imbler School District 11
Lincoln County SD Elgin School District 23
Deschutes
Bend-LaPine Administrative School District 1 Linn Wallowa (did not participate)
Redmond School District 2J Greater Albany Public School District 8J
Lebanon Community School District 9 Wasco (did not participate)
Douglas Central Linn School District 552
Oakland School District 1 Washington
North Douglas School District 22 Malheur Hillsboro School District 1J
Reedsport School District 105 Ontario School District 8C Banks School District 13
Vale School District 84 Forest Grove School District 15
Gilliam (did not participate) Tigard-Tualatin School District 23J
Marion Beaverton School District 48J
Grant Gervais School District 1 Sherwood School District 88J
John Day School District 3 St Paul School District 45
Mt. Angel School District 91 Wheeler
Harney (did not participate) Woodburn School District 103 Fossil School District 21J
 
Yamhill
Dayton School District 8
Sheridan School District 48J