Summary:
There are two middle schools in Corvallis School District 509J in Corvallis, Oregon — Linus Pauling Middle School, with 712 students, and Cheldelin Middle School, with 488 students — and both serve grades 6–8.
Both schools score above the state average in English Language Arts, math and science, but neither leads in everything. Cheldelin has the stronger reading results: 51.0% proficient in ELA all grades versus 46.7% at Linus Pauling and 43.8% statewide, with its best showing in 7th grade at 54.4%. Linus Pauling leads in math (38.6% vs. 36.5%; state 32.9%) and science (43.1% vs. 40.4%; state 30.6%), and its 8th-grade math score of 38.5% is well ahead of Cheldelin's 30.1%. Both schools trail the district average in all three subjects, though Linus Pauling is nearly level with it in science (43.1% vs. 43.4%). Each school also has a weak spot: 6th-grade ELA at Linus Pauling (39.4%, below the state's 41.8%) and 8th-grade math at Cheldelin (30.1%, just above the state's 30.0%).
Attendance is a clear difference: Cheldelin's chronic absenteeism is 27.6%, below the district (30.2%) and state (33.5%), while Linus Pauling's is 32.9%. Other basics are nearly identical — free/reduced lunch (57.87% at Linus Pauling, 57.58% at Cheldelin) and student-teacher ratios (18.3 vs. 18.2) — although Cheldelin spends $686 more per student. In the most recent rankings the two are nearly tied: Cheldelin 98th of 371 and Linus Pauling 101st of 371, both at 4 stars in the low 70s percentile, after Cheldelin sat in the 87th–88th percentile the two prior years.
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