Sandstone Middle School

Sandstone Middle School is a mid-tier middle-grades school in Hermiston, Oregon, one of the schools within Hermiston SD 8. The school works with 609 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so Sandstone Middle School sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Hermiston SD 8 runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,320 students. Sandstone Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Sandstone Middle School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 35% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 19.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sandstone Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the surrounding community, Umatilla County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,728 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Umatilla County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,143 students), of which Sandstone Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Highland Hills Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sandstone Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 609 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 41% to 35%.

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