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Alumni: what's one memory from Alder Creek Middle School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
810
Middle
DISTRICT 901 · STATE 494
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH CLACKAMAS SD 12·NCES 410883004189
Alder Creek Middle School
13801 SE Webster Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97267 · (503) 353-5700 · Clackamas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL810 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of Oregon public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Oregon public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 19.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
478 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 76%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 270 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 267 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 273 | 34% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
23.6%
OR avg 43.0% . -0.7pp since 2023
Math
17.2%
OR avg 31.8% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.6% | 17.2% |
| 2023-24 | 24.3% | 15.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-21.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alder Creek Middle School
Alder Creek Middle School's state test result (17.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alder Creek Middle School this school | 810 | 59.0% | 17.9% |
| Thomas R Fowler Middle School Tigard | 744 | 58.1% | 34.1% |
| Linus Pauling Middle School Corvallis | 712 | 57.9% | 44.0% |
| Rowe Middle School Milwaukie | 747 | 58.8% | 23.4% |
| Hazelbrook Middle School Tualatin | 792 | 57.8% | 29.3% |
| Gardiner Middle School Oregon City | 699 | 54.2% | 29.9% |
Matched among Oregon middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alder Creek Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #173 of 190 | #19 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.2% | #160 of 200 no change | #18 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #183 of 201 ▼ 5 | #20 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 810 | #17 of 208 | #4 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.8:1 | #73 of 180 | #8 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.5% | #65 of 180 | #6 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.0% | #142 of 194 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #53 of 141 | #5 of 11 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
810
-62 (-7%) vs 2020
+14% since 2010-11, when it was 712
Student : Teacher
17.8:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 810 | 45.5 | 17.8:1 | 59% (478) |
| 2023-24 | 831 | 44.2 | 18.8:1 | 69% (575) |
| 2022-23 | 846 | 47.4 | 17.9:1 | 49% (413) |
| 2020-21 | 872 | 50 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 959 | 48.9 | 19.6:1 | 47% (449) |
| 2015-16 | 988 | 46 | 21.5:1 | 48% (478) |
| 2010-11 | 712 | 36 | 19.8:1 | 48% (345) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alder Creek Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (959 to 810); teachers down 7% (48.9 to 45.5).
About Alder Creek Middle School
Alder Creek Middle School is a large middle-grades school with its address in Milwaukie, Oregon. Students in grades 6 through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 810 students. Middle schools in Oregon average about 494 students, which makes this school 64% larger than average.
The district for Alder Creek Middle School is North Clackamas SD 12, with 31 schools and 16,837 students.
About 57% of the student body at Alder Creek Middle School is White. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black, and 2% Asian. By comparison, Clackamas County residents are about 79% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 57, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 17.8:1 is based on 45.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Oregon have an average ratio of 19.3:1. In all, 59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Clackamas County average 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, Alder Creek Middle School lands at D, ahead of 5% of Oregon public middle schools.
Compared with Oregon schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Alder Creek Middle School scores 21.8 points lower than predicted. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 17.9%; the prediction is 39.7%.
In the surrounding county, Clackamas County, the median household earns about $103,517 a year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Alder Creek Middle School, Clackamas County has 118 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Linwood Elementary School, is about 0.9 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Alder Creek Middle School is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
NCES assigns Alder Creek Middle School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 7% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Clackamas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
423,975
Census ACS
Median income
$103,517
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
118
57,601 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in North Clackamas SD 12
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Clackamas High SchoolHigh · 1,280 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Rock Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
Other schools in Milwaukie
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
- Rowe Middle SchoolMiddle · 747 students
- Whitcomb Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ardenwald Elementary SchoolElementary · 396 students
Other Alder Creek Middle schools
One other US public school is named Alder Creek Middle. Alder Creek Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Alder Creek MiddleTruckee, CA · 535 students
Nearby schools
- Linwood Elementary School0.9 mi · 259
- Sojourner School0.9 mi · 159
- Bilquist Elementary School1.0 mi · 373
- View Acres Elementary School1.0 mi · 367
- Clackamas Web Academy1.1 mi · 529
- Clackamas Middle College1.1 mi · 305
Frequently asked questions
About Alder Creek Middle SchoolHow many students attend Alder Creek Middle School?
Alder Creek Middle School enrolls approximately 810 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Alder Creek Middle School serve?
Alder Creek Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Alder Creek Middle School?
Approximately 17.8:1 students per teacher at Alder Creek Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Alder Creek Middle School?
At Alder Creek Middle School, the student body is approximately 57% White, 32% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Alder Creek Middle School?
Alder Creek Middle School is overseen by North Clackamas SD 12 in Clackamas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.