Summary:
Eugene School District 4J includes eight middle schools serving grades 6 through 8, with a combined enrollment of about 3,384 students — ranging from 328 at Spencer Butte Middle School to 557 at Roosevelt Middle School. The district overall ranks 23rd of 141 Oregon districts (84th percentile, 4 stars), but its middle schools span the 20th to the 82nd percentile, so district averages mask wide differences between individual campuses.
Three schools stand out. Spencer Butte Middle School ranks 68th of 371 (82nd percentile, 4 stars), has the highest English language arts proficiency at 59.4%, and jumped from 147th to 68th in a single year. Roosevelt Middle School ranks 84th (77th percentile, 4 stars) with 56.0% in ELA and the group's highest math proficiency at 45.5%, though its science score of 22.5% is a clear weakness. Kennedy Middle School (103rd, 72nd percentile, 4 stars) leads in science at 52.5%, well above the district's 36.6% and the state's 30.6%. Madison Middle School (40.4%) and Arts and Technology Academy at Jefferson (42.6%) also post strong science results, though Madison's math is low at 24.7% and Jefferson's chronic absenteeism is high at 35.0%. Cal Young Middle School has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 25.4% but middling scores.
At the other end, Monroe Middle School ranks 298th of 371 (20th percentile, 1 star) with the lowest ELA (28.1%) and math (18.5%), while Kelly Middle School (265th, 29th percentile, 1 star) has the lowest science score at 20.0%. Across the group, math is weaker than ELA — only Roosevelt and Spencer Butte exceed the state math average — and science varies most. Attendance and spending do not track neatly with results: Spencer Butte has the highest absenteeism at 36.0% yet the top rank, and Kelly has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 14.7 but low test scores.
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