South Meadows Middle School

South Meadows Middle School, a moderately sized 6-8 campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, one of the schools within Hillsboro SD 1J, serves 696 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 494 students each, so South Meadows Middle School sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

South Meadows Middle School is one of 37 schools operated by Hillsboro SD 1J, a district that hosts 18,465 students overall.

On the student-mix side, South Meadows Middle School logs that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Washington County's rate of about 57%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South Meadows Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washington County) shows that median household earnings sit near $107,772, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Washington County runs 136 public schools (combined enrollment of about 79,469 students), of which South Meadows Middle School is one.

Witch Hazel Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Meadows Middle School. On composite proficiency, South Meadows Middle School comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at South Meadows Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 699 students in 2018 to 696 in 2025.

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