Summary:
Centennial School District 28J in Oregon has two middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Centennial Middle School (876 students) and Oliver Middle (435 students) — together enrolling 1,311 middle-grade students. The district itself ranks 125th of 141 in Oregon, at the 11th percentile with a 1-star rating, so both schools operate within a district near the bottom of the state. Centennial School District 28J's larger middle school educates about two-thirds of these students, while Oliver Middle serves the remaining third.
Centennial Middle is the stronger of the two. It ranks 264 of 371 statewide (29th percentile, 1 star) and scores above the district average in every reported subject and grade; its best results are 7th grade ELA at 42.2% and 7th grade math at 31.4%, both close to state averages. Oliver Middle ranks 355 of 371 (4th percentile, 0 stars) and falls below the district in every reported test, with its lowest results in 6th grade math at 5.3% and all-grade math at 8.6%. Centennial outpaces Oliver by 17.8 points in ELA, 12.1 points in math, and 10.5 points in science. Neither school reaches the state average in any reported subject or grade, and math is the weakest area for both.
Both schools face similar challenges. Chronic absenteeism is about 39% at each (39.6% at Centennial, 38.8% at Oliver), compared with 33.5% statewide. Free/reduced lunch is 102.17% at Centennial — a reporting artifact above 100% — and 98.62% at Oliver, indicating very high economic need at both. Centennial spends $19,319 per student versus $18,132 at Oliver, yet both report the same student-teacher ratio of 20.3. Rankings have been stable: Centennial has hovered around the 27th–29th percentile over three years, while Oliver has stayed near the bottom at the 4th–5th percentile.
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