Sunridge Middle School

Sunridge Middle School is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in Pendleton, Oregon, overseen by Pendleton SD 16, serveing 672 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 36% larger than the state mean of about 494.

Pendleton SD 16 comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,901 students; Sunridge Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sunridge Middle School shows that White students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 11% Native American, 10% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 19.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunridge Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.2%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Umatilla County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,728 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Umatilla County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,143 students), of which Sunridge Middle School is one.

InterMountain Virtual Learning Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunridge Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sunridge Middle School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 29.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunridge Middle School has fell 12%, going from 763 students in 2018 to 672 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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