Lake Oswego Middle School

Lake Oswego Middle School is one of the high-enrollment middle schools in Lake Oswego, Oregon, one of the schools within Lake Oswego SD 7J, with 791 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 60% bigger than the state mean of about 494.

Lake Oswego SD 7J comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,827 students; Lake Oswego Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Lake Oswego Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder comes out to 16% Asian, 13% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Lake Oswego Middle School records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. Roughly 15% of students at Lake Oswego Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Clackamas County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Oswego Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Clackamas County put median household earnings sit near $103,517, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Lake Oswego Middle School is one of 118 public schools in Clackamas County (combined enrollment of about 57,601 students).

Lake Oswego High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lake Oswego Middle School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 65.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Lake Oswego Middle School's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 884 (now 791). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 74% to 60%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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