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Enrollment
747
Middle
DISTRICT 901 · STATE 494
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH CLACKAMAS SD 12·NCES 410883000092
Rowe Middle School
3606 SE Lake Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97222 · (503) 353-5725 · Clackamas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL747 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Oregon public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
18.6:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 19.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
439 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 291 | 39% |
| Grade 7 | 235 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 221 | 30% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
33.9%
OR avg 43.0% . +1.9pp since 2023
Math
20.7%
OR avg 31.8% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 34 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.9% | 20.7% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 15.8% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
23.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Rowe Middle School
Rowe Middle School's state test result (23.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowe Middle School this school | 747 | 58.8% | 23.4% |
| Linus Pauling Middle School Corvallis | 712 | 57.9% | 44.0% |
| Alder Creek Middle School Milwaukie | 810 | 59.0% | 17.9% |
| Thomas R Fowler Middle School Tigard | 744 | 58.1% | 34.1% |
| Twality Middle School Tigard | 1,006 | 57.8% | 36.6% |
| Hazelbrook Middle School Tualatin | 792 | 57.8% | 29.3% |
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 Rowe Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Clackamas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #145 of 190 | #16 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #140 of 200 ▲ 19 | #17 of 20 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.9% | #143 of 201 ▲ 5 | #17 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 747 | #28 of 208 | #6 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #97 of 180 | #10 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.1% | #37 of 180 | #3 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #143 of 194 | #8 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.5% | #123 of 141 | #10 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
747
-60 (-7%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 608
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 17.9:1
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 | 747 | 40.3 | 18.6:1 | 59% (439) |
| 2023-24 | 712 | 38.4 | 18.5:1 | 69% (492) |
| 2022-23 | 722 | 42.4 | 17.0:1 | 70% (504) |
| 2020-21 | 807 | 45 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 782 | 46.3 | 16.9:1 | 58% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 845 | 43 | 19.6:1 | 64% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 674 | 38 | 17.7:1 | 65% (439) |
| 2000-01 | 618 | 35 | 17.7:1 | 23% (140) |
| 1990-91 | 608 | 31 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rowe Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (782 to 747); teachers down 13% (46.3 to 40.3).
About Rowe Middle School
Rowe Middle School is a middle school in Milwaukie, Oregon, and it is part of North Clackamas SD 12. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 747 students. Across middle schools in Oregon, the average enrollment is about 494.
The North Clackamas SD 12 system has 31 schools and 16,837 students.
The student body at Rowe Middle School is 54% White. Other reported shares: 26% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. Clackamas County's residents are about 79% White, 25 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
Rowe Middle School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.6:1, with 40.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Oregon, 19.3:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 59% at Rowe Middle School. The average for public schools in Clackamas County is 50%.
Among Oregon public middle schools, Rowe Middle School outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Rowe Middle School is among the bottom 10% of schools in Oregon. Predicted: 39.8%. Actual: 23.4%.
In the wider Clackamas County area, the median household earns about $103,517 a year, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Rowe Middle School shares Clackamas County with 117 other public schools.
Rowe Middle School is about 0.7 miles from Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School, its nearest public school. Rowe Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Rowe Middle School ranks 7th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 23.4% against a local average of 34.9%.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 807 to 747, a 7% decline.
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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 North Clackamas SD 12
- Adrienne C. Nelson High SchoolHigh · 1,536 students
- Clackamas High SchoolHigh · 1,280 students
- Happy Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,158 students
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Rock Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 889 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
Other schools in Milwaukie
- Putnam High SchoolHigh · 1,060 students
- Milwaukie High SchoolHigh · 874 students
- Alder Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Whitcomb Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ardenwald Elementary SchoolElementary · 396 students
Other Rowe Middle schools
One other US public school is named Rowe Middle. Rowe Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Rowe Middle SchoolCYPRESS, TX · 1,481 students
Nearby schools
- Milwaukie El Puente Elementary School0.7 mi · 408
- Milwaukie High School0.8 mi · 874
- Cascade Heights Public Charter School0.8 mi · 228
- Milwaukie Academy of the Arts0.8 mi · 281
- Oak Grove Elementary0.9 mi · 262
- View Acres Elementary School1.3 mi · 367
Frequently asked questions
About Rowe Middle SchoolHow large is Rowe Middle School?
Rowe Middle School enrolls approximately 747 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Rowe Middle School serve?
Rowe Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Rowe Middle School have?
Rowe Middle School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Rowe Middle School?
Student demographics at Rowe Middle School are roughly 54% White, 26% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Rowe Middle School in?
Rowe Middle School is part of North Clackamas SD 12.
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