Enrollment
358
Middle
DISTRICT 321 · STATE 494
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SWEET HOME SD 55·NCES 411197000707
Sweet Home Junior High School
880 22nd Ave, Sweet Home, OR 97386 · (541) 367-7187 · Linn County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL358 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% 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.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
16.5:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 19.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
266 students
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 76%
Community
0
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 7 | 180 | 50% |
| Grade 8 | 178 | 50% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sweet Home Junior High School→Sweet Home High School
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OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
32.0%
OR avg 43.0% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
25.2%
OR avg 31.8% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 25.2% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 20.1% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.7%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Sweet Home Junior High School
Sweet Home Junior High School's state test result (23.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Home Junior High School this school | 358 | 74.3% | 23.1% |
| Winston Middle School Winston | 310 | 74.8% | 18.1% |
| Fern Ridge Middle School Elmira | 315 | 71.4% | 32.1% |
| Oaklea Middle School Junction City | 446 | 75.8% | 24.6% |
| Banks Middle School Banks | 254 | 74.8% | 24.8% |
| Harrisburg Middle School Harrisburg | 263 | 73.4% | 19.0% |
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 Sweet Home Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Linn County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.1% | #146 of 190 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #109 of 200 ▲ 22 | #2 of 7 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #151 of 201 ▲ 5 | #5 of 7 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 358 | #149 of 208 | #5 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #43 of 180 | #1 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.2% | #174 of 180 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.3% | #94 of 194 | #5 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.6% | #30 of 38 | N/A |
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
358
+17 (+5%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 371
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 358 | 21.8 | 16.5:1 | 74% (266) |
| 2023-24 | 382 | 21.7 | 17.6:1 | 75% (286) |
| 2022-23 | 383 | 21.3 | 18.0:1 | 68% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 341 | 18 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 18.3 | 19.1:1 | 58% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 329 | 18 | 18.3:1 | 62% (205) |
| 2010-11 | 373 | 19 | 19.6:1 | 66% (247) |
| 2000-01 | 356 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 49% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 371 | 20 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sweet Home Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (349 to 358); teachers up 19% (18.3 to 21.8).
About Sweet Home Junior High School
Sweet Home Junior High School runs as a small middle school in Sweet Home, Oregon. The school serves grades 7 through 8. Enrollment is 358 students. Middle schools in Oregon have about 494 students on average; enrollment here is 28% lower.
Sweet Home SD 55 runs Sweet Home Junior High School along with 6 other schools, enrolling 2,249 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, Sweet Home Junior High School is 85% White. Other groups make up 9% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. In Linn County overall, the White share is about 84%. A diversity index of 27% means there is a 27% chance two randomly chosen students at Sweet Home Junior High School are from different groups.
Sweet Home Junior High School reports a ratio of 16.5 students per teacher, from 21.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 16.5:1 compares with an average of 19.3:1 for middle schools in Oregon. Lunch program data show 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Sweet Home Junior High School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 23% of Oregon public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Sweet Home Junior High School is 10.6 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 23.1% actual, 33.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Oregon.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Linn County show that median household income comes to about $76,329, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county's public schools total 48, with about 17,916 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Sweet Home High School, is the closest to Sweet Home Junior High School. In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of Sweet Home Junior High School. On proficiency, Sweet Home Junior High School is behind the 33.6% nearby average, ranking 9th of 9.
NCES describes the area around Sweet Home Junior High School as Town: Distant, meaning in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 358, from 341 in 2020-21. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.9:1 in 2020-21, and 16.5:1 in 2024-25.
Sweet Home Junior High School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Linn County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
130,706
Census ACS
Median income
$76,329
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
48
17,916 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sweet Home SD 55
- Sweet Home High SchoolHigh · 752 students
- Oak Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Foster Elementary SchoolElementary · 277 students
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
- Holley Elementary SchoolElementary · 157 students
- Sweet Home Charter SchoolElementary · 142 students
Other schools in Sweet Home
- Sweet Home High SchoolHigh · 752 students
- Oak Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Hawthorne Elementary SchoolElementary · 260 students
- Holley Elementary SchoolElementary · 157 students
- Sweet Home Charter SchoolElementary · 142 students
Nearby schools
- Sweet Home High School0.4 mi · 752
- Hawthorne Elementary School0.7 mi · 260
- Oak Heights Elementary School0.9 mi · 303
- Foster Elementary School2.7 mi · 277
- Holley Elementary School4.0 mi · 157
- Sweet Home Charter School4.3 mi · 142
Frequently asked questions
About Sweet Home Junior High SchoolHow many students attend Sweet Home Junior High School?
Sweet Home Junior High School enrolls approximately 358 students in grades 07-08.
Is Sweet Home Junior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sweet Home Junior High School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at Sweet Home Junior High School?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at Sweet Home Junior High School.
What is the student diversity at Sweet Home Junior High School?
Student demographics at Sweet Home Junior High School are roughly 85% White, 9% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Sweet Home Junior High School?
Sweet Home Junior High School is overseen by Sweet Home SD 55 in Linn County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.