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Which teacher or staff member at Lake Oswego Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
791
Middle
DISTRICT 840 · STATE 494
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE OSWEGO SD 7J·NCES 410723000066
Lake Oswego Middle School
2500 SW Country Club Rd, Lake Oswego, OR 97034 · (503) 534-2335 · Clackamas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL791 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 95% of Oregon public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
15.4:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 19.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
122 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 236 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 271 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 284 | 36% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
74.7%
OR avg 43.0% . +5.2pp since 2023
Math
65.9%
OR avg 31.8% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.7% | 65.9% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 63.0% |
% 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
64.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.6%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Lake Oswego Middle School
Lake Oswego Middle School's state test result (64.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Oswego Middle School this school | 791 | 15.4% | 64.0% |
| Lakeridge Middle School Lake Oswego | 888 | 12.3% | 59.2% |
| Sherwood Middle School Sherwood | 1,112 | 21.6% | 49.1% |
| Rosemont Ridge Middle School West Linn | 699 | 28.9% | 56.0% |
| Athey Creek Middle School West Linn | 470 | 24.7% | 46.3% |
| West Sylvan Middle School Portland | 670 | 41.6% | 59.1% |
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 Lake Oswego Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #1 of 190 | #1 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #2 of 200 ▲ 1 | #1 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.7% | #1 of 201 ▲ 3 | #1 of 20 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 791 | #23 of 208 | #5 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #22 of 180 | #3 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.0% | #50 of 180 | #4 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.4% | #193 of 194 | #18 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #84 of 141 | #9 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
791
-68 (-8%) vs 2020
+51% since 1990-91, when it was 524
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 791 | 51.4 | 15.4:1 | 15% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 832 | 49.5 | 16.8:1 | 14% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 824 | 45.7 | 18.0:1 | 8% (64) |
| 2020-21 | 859 | 47 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 884 | 40.2 | 22.0:1 | 8% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 920 | 41 | 22.4:1 | 10% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 560 | 25 | 22.4:1 | 11% (62) |
| 2000-01 | 593 | 29 | 20.4:1 | 4% (24) |
| 1990-91 | 524 | 32 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Oswego Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (884 to 791); teachers up 28% (40.2 to 51.4).
About Lake Oswego Middle School
Lake Oswego Middle School is a large middle school in Oregon, with an address in Lake Oswego. Its 791 students are spread across grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Oregon is about 494 students.
The district, Lake Oswego SD 7J, operates 12 schools serving 6,827 students.
A majority of students at Lake Oswego Middle School, 60%, are White. Next come 16% Asian, 13% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. The county population is about 79% White. Lake Oswego Middle School has a diversity index of 59%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.4:1, with 51.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in Oregon, the typical ratio is 19.3:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Lake Oswego Middle School is 15%. On average, public schools in Clackamas County report 50%.
The allk12 Grade for Lake Oswego Middle School is A+. Compared with Oregon public middle schools, the school scored higher than 95% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Lake Oswego Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Oregon schools: 64.0% actual against 56.6% predicted.
Clackamas County has about 423,975 residents, and median household income is about $103,517, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 118 public schools in Clackamas County, with a combined enrollment of about 57,601.
Nearby, Lake Oswego High School is about 0.3 miles away. Lake Oswego Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Lake Oswego Middle School ranks 4th of 8 nearby schools, at 64.0% versus a 65.1% average.
NCES assigns Lake Oswego 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 number of students declined from 859 to 791 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 15.4:1, from 18.3:1.
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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 Lake Oswego SD 7J
- Lake Oswego High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Lakeridge High SchoolHigh · 1,241 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Lake Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- Oak Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
- Forest Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
Other schools in Lake Oswego
- Lake Oswego High SchoolHigh · 1,282 students
- Lakeridge High SchoolHigh · 1,241 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 888 students
- Lake Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 425 students
- Oak Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 402 students
- Forest Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 389 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Oswego High School0.3 mi · 1,282
- Lake Grove Elementary School1.1 mi · 425
- Stephenson Elementary School1.2 mi · 285
- Forest Hills Elementary School1.3 mi · 389
- Oak Creek Elementary School1.3 mi · 402
- Palisades World Language School1.6 mi · 252
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Oswego Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lake Oswego Middle School?
Lake Oswego Middle School enrolls approximately 791 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lake Oswego Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lake Oswego Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Lake Oswego Middle School have?
Lake Oswego Middle School employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
How diverse is Lake Oswego Middle School?
Lake Oswego Middle School reports a student body of 60% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 16% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Lake Oswego Middle School?
Lake Oswego Middle School is overseen by Lake Oswego SD 7J in Clackamas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.