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Kellogg Middle School
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
About Kellogg Middle School
Kellogg Middle School operates as a moderately sized middle-grades school in Portland, Oregon, run under Portland SD 1J. Current enrollment sits at 592 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Across the 86 schools in Portland SD 1J (41,894 students total), Kellogg Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Kellogg Middle School logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 36% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Kellogg Middle School has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Kellogg Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Multnomah County's rate of about 75%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kellogg Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.2%; this one delivers 33.2%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Multnomah County indicate median household earnings sit near $88,766, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Multnomah County runs 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students), of which Kellogg Middle School is one.
Franklin High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kellogg Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
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