Summary:
Middle schools in Vale School District 84, Oregon, serve grades 7–8 and include one school: Vale Middle School, with 120 students. It is a 4-star school ranked 86th of 371 Oregon middle schools in 2025–26, placing it in the 77th percentile. The district is a 5-star district ranked 9th of 141 districts, in the 94th percentile. This means the middle school is in the top quarter of Oregon middle schools, while the district is among the highest-ranked in the state.
Vale Middle School performs above the state in every reported OSAS subject and grade. Its strongest results are in 8th grade mathematics, where 50.0% of students are proficient versus 30.0% statewide, a gap of +20.0 percentage points. In 8th grade ELA, 59.1% are proficient versus 41.5% statewide, a gap of +17.6 points. All-grade math is 46.2% proficient versus 32.9% statewide, and all-grade ELA is 50.8% versus 43.8%. Science is the lowest absolute area at 36.4%, but it still beats the state’s 30.6%; at 8th grade, the school’s 36.4% also beats the district’s 30.4% and the state’s 27.7%. The all-grade science rate is below the district’s 44.8%, but because the school serves only grades 7–8, that district all-grade figure is not a like-for-like comparison. Eighth grade is the academic engine, while 7th grade trails the district in ELA (-5.6 points) and math (-4.8 points), though it remains above the state in both.
Chronic absenteeism is a major bright spot: 13.6% at the school, compared with 33.5% statewide and 13.8% in the district. About 90% of students are eligible for free/reduced lunch, yet the school still posts above-state proficiency in every reported area and has very low chronic absenteeism. Per-student spending is $22,395, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.3, implying roughly 9 teachers at 120 students. The school’s rank moved from 57th of 371 in 2023–24 to 86th of 371 in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, so it remains a 4-star, top-quartile school even after a slight slip from its earlier 85th-percentile position.
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