Summary:
Harrisburg School District 7J serves middle-level students at a single school, Harrisburg Middle School, which enrolls 263 students in grades 5 through 8 at 201 S 6th St in the small town of Harrisburg, Oregon. Because it is the only middle school in the Harrisburg School District 7J, there is no in-district comparison to make; families can instead measure the school against district and state averages. The district overall ranks 124 of 141 districts in Oregon, in the 12th percentile with 1 star.
Test results are mixed and generally below state averages. In 2025–2026 OSAS testing, 29.5% of students were proficient in English language arts, 19.6% in math, and 22.0% in science, compared with state rates of 43.8%, 32.9%, and 30.6%. Science is the one bright spot: 22.0% is 3.4 points above the district's 18.6%, and it is the only subject where the school outperforms its district. Grade 7 is the strongest grade level, with 40.0% proficient in ELA and 27.6% in math. The weakest points are 6th grade ELA at 15.4% (state: 41.8%) and 8th grade math at 10.2% (state: 30.0%), the lowest figure in the data.
Looking at trends, the school has improved modestly, moving from 307th of 371 Oregon middle schools in 2023–2024 to 288th of 371 in 2025–2026, with its percentile rising from 17 to 22 — still a 1-star rating in the bottom quartile. Chronic absenteeism is 33.1%, slightly better than the district's 36.4% and the state's 33.5%, though roughly one in three students is still chronically absent. About 73.38% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the school spends $14,196 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 17.5.
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