Summary:
Pendleton, Oregon has one middle school in this data set: Sunridge Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 672 students and belongs to Pendleton School District 16. Since it is the only middle school in the city, parents cannot compare it with another Pendleton middle school; the most useful comparisons are to the district, the state, grade levels, and the school’s own past performance.
Sunridge Middle School is rated 2 stars and ranked 243 of 371 middle schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 35th percentile. The district is rated 1 star and ranked 110 of 141 districts, in the 22nd percentile. Overall, the school is below the state in all three tested subjects: English Language Arts is 35.7% vs. the state’s 43.8%, Mathematics is 23.1% vs. 32.9%, and Science is 26.6% vs. 30.6%. The district is also below the state in ELA (36.7%) and Math (23.8%), but much closer in Science (30.3% vs. 30.6%). Grade-level results show relative strengths in 8th grade Mathematics (27.9% vs. 30.0%), 8th grade Science (26.6% vs. 27.7%), and 6th grade ELA (39.9% vs. 41.8%). The largest gaps are in 7th grade Mathematics (19.6% vs. 33.3%) and 7th grade ELA (33.9% vs. 45.3%).
Parents should also note that Sunridge Middle School’s ranking has slipped over three years, from the 44th percentile in 2023–2024 to 39th in 2024–2025 and 35th in 2025–2026, though it has kept 2 stars. Chronic absenteeism is 34.6%, slightly above the district’s 33.3% and the state’s 33.5%, meaning roughly one in three students is chronically absent. The free/reduced lunch rate is 83.48%, a high-poverty context that is important when interpreting results. The school reports $16,029 per student and a student-teacher ratio of 19.9, but the data set does not include district or state benchmarks for those figures. The clearest areas for further investigation are 7th grade and mathematics.
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