Lincoln Savage Middle School
Test scores
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientWhat this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 44 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lincoln Savage Middle School
Lincoln Savage Middle School operates as a modestly sized middle-grades school in Grants Pass, Oregon, overseen by Three Rivers/Josephine County SD. Current enrollment sits at 283 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Lincoln Savage Middle School sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 17 schools in Three Rivers/Josephine County SD (4,440 students total), Lincoln Savage Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Lincoln Savage Middle School reports that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Lincoln Savage Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Lincoln Savage Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.3%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of +3.7 points.
In the area at large, census data for Josephine County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,098 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Lincoln Savage Middle School is one of 28 public schools in Josephine County (combined enrollment of about 9,944 students).
Nearest neighbor: Woodland Charter School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lincoln Savage Middle School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.1%.
Lincoln Savage Middle School operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lincoln Savage Middle School has edged down 30%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 77% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.
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