Linus Pauling Middle School

Linus Pauling Middle School, a medium-sized intermediate school in Corvallis, Oregon, overseen by Corvallis SD 509J, teaches 712 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Linus Pauling Middle School sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

Corvallis SD 509J runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 5,916 students. Linus Pauling Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Linus Pauling Middle School reports that White students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.3:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Linus Pauling Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of +3.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Benton County put the typical household earns roughly $77,702 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Benton County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,268 students), Linus Pauling Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Garfield Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linus Pauling Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Linus Pauling Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Linus Pauling Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 723 students in 2018 to 712 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.