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How has Claggett Creek Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
798
Middle
DISTRICT 673 · STATE 494
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SALEM-KEIZER SD 24J·NCES 411082001440
Claggett Creek Middle School
1810 Alder Dr NE, Keizer, OR 97303 · (503) 399-3701 · Marion County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL798 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Oregon public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
21.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 34.6:1 · STATE 19.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
704 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 263 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 278 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 257 | 32% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
32.9%
OR avg 43.0% . +9.5pp since 2023
Math
20.7%
OR avg 31.8% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.9% | 20.7% |
| 2023-24 | 23.4% | 15.6% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
22.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.3%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Claggett Creek Middle School
Claggett Creek Middle School's state test result (22.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claggett Creek Middle School this school | 798 | 88.2% | 22.2% |
| Parrish Middle School Salem | 691 | 88.6% | 19.4% |
| Armand Larive Middle School Hermiston | 722 | 91.7% | 32.1% |
| Sandstone Middle School Hermiston | 609 | 92.0% | 31.7% |
| Tom McCall Upper Elementary Forest Grove | 673 | 81.1% | 21.5% |
| Neil Armstrong Middle School Forest Grove | 838 | 82.0% | 22.2% |
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 Claggett Creek Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Marion County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #151 of 190 | #10 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #142 of 200 ▲ 21 | #9 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #148 of 201 ▲ 33 | #11 of 18 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 798 | #20 of 208 | #6 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.6:1 | #159 of 180 | #9 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.3% | #43 of 180 | #4 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.2% | #52 of 194 | #9 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.5% | #45 of 141 | #5 of 16 |
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
798
-154 (-16%) vs 2020
-15% since 2010-11, when it was 934
Student : Teacher
21.6:1
was 25.7:1
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 | 798 | 37 | 21.6:1 | 88% (704) |
| 2023-24 | 785 | 37.3 | 21.0:1 | 67% (525) |
| 2022-23 | 829 | 39.9 | 20.8:1 | 73% (603) |
| 2020-21 | 952 | 37 | 25.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 956 | 40.4 | 23.7:1 | 74% (708) |
| 2015-16 | 925 | 43 | 21.5:1 | 74% (685) |
| 2010-11 | 934 | 46 | 20.3:1 | 75% (702) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Claggett Creek Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (956 to 798); teachers down 9% (40.4 to 37).
About Claggett Creek Middle School
Claggett Creek Middle School serves students in Keizer, Oregon, as a large middle school. The school serves 798 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. For comparison, middle schools in Oregon average about 494 students.
Claggett Creek Middle School is run by Salem-Keizer SD 24J, whose 65 schools enroll 37,776 students.
A majority of students at Claggett Creek Middle School, 52%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 34% White, 7% multiracial, and 4% Pacific Islander. Marion County's residents are about 29% Hispanic, 23 points below the school's share. Claggett Creek Middle School has a diversity index of 60%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Claggett Creek Middle School employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 21.6:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Oregon is 19.3:1, lower than at this school. Claggett Creek Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 88%.
Claggett Creek Middle School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 28% of Oregon public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Oregon with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 28.3%. Claggett Creek Middle School scores 22.2%.
In the county around the school, Marion County, median household income is about $77,351, about 26% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. A total of 111 public schools operate in Marion County, serving about 53,799 students.
Weddle Elementary School is the public school closest to Claggett Creek Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Claggett Creek Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 24.4% on proficiency, and Claggett Creek Middle School is below that at 22.2%.
NCES describes the area around Claggett Creek Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Claggett Creek Middle School went from 952 students to 798. Its ratio of students to teachers was 25.7:1 in 2020-21, and 21.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Marion County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
349,244
Census ACS
Median income
$77,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
53,799 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Salem-Keizer SD 24J
- McKay High SchoolHigh · 2,380 students
- South Salem High SchoolHigh · 2,195 students
- North Salem High SchoolHigh · 2,107 students
- McNary High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Sprague High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- West Salem High SchoolHigh · 1,606 students
Other schools in Keizer
- McNary High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Whiteaker Middle SchoolMiddle · 654 students
- Keizer Elementary SchoolElementary · 565 students
- Gubser Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
- Cummings Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Nearby schools
- Weddle Elementary School0.1 mi · 352
- Kennedy Elementary School0.8 mi · 358
- Hallman Elementary School0.9 mi · 339
- Cummings Elementary School1.2 mi · 397
- Oregon School for the Deaf1.4 mi · 86
- Eagle Charter School1.4 mi · 150
Frequently asked questions
About Claggett Creek Middle SchoolHow large is Claggett Creek Middle School?
Claggett Creek Middle School enrolls approximately 798 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Claggett Creek Middle School serve?
Claggett Creek Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Claggett Creek Middle School have?
Claggett Creek Middle School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.6:1.
How diverse is Claggett Creek Middle School?
Claggett Creek Middle School reports a student body of 34% White, 52% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Claggett Creek Middle School public or private?
Claggett Creek Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Salem-Keizer SD 24J.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.