Best Middle Schools in Culver, OR

Culver, Oregon has a single middle school: Culver Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 162 students — roughly 54 per grade. It is the only middle school in the city and the sole provider of grades 6–8 in Culver School District 4, a small district ranked 115th of 141 in Oregon (18th percentile, 1 star). Parents here have one middle school option, and while the district overall ranks near the bottom of the state, the middle school itself performs noticeably better than its district.

English Language Arts is the school's clear strength. At 55.3% proficient across all grades, Culver Middle School beats its district (47.5%) and the state (43.8%), with its best results in 7th grade at 60.4% — 15.1 points above the state. Mathematics is the opposite story: only 14.2% of students meet the math standard, below the district's 20.1% and less than half the state's 32.9%. Math proficiency declines at every grade level — 15.6% in 6th, 14.6% in 7th, and 12.5% in 8th — suggesting gaps that widen as students move toward high school.

Attendance is a relative bright spot: chronic absenteeism of 21.7% is lower than both the district (28.3%) and the state (33.5%). Eighth-grade science proficiency is 22.0%, slightly under the state's 27.7%. The school spends $19,459 per student with a 15.2:1 student-teacher ratio — substantial resources that appear to support ELA results but have not translated into math outcomes. Its state rank has slipped from the 60th percentile (3 stars) in 2023–24 to the 47th percentile (2 stars) in 2025–26. With only about 54 students per grade, a single student is worth roughly 1.9 percentage points at the grade level, so small year-to-year swings should be read cautiously.