Summary:
Gladstone School District 115 has a single middle school, Walter L Kraxberger Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 343 students in Gladstone, Oregon. Because it is the district's only middle school, its results effectively define the district's middle-level performance, and district figures for grades 6–8 mirror the school's exactly. The district itself ranks 83rd of 141 Oregon districts, at the 41st percentile with 2 stars.
Academically, the school trails Oregon in all three tested subjects in 2025–2026. All-grades math proficiency is 17.2% against 32.9% statewide, a 15.7-point gap, and every grade is well below the state: 6th grade at 14.6%, 7th at 20.5%, and 8th at 16.7%. Science sits at 19.3% versus 30.6% statewide, and ELA at 36.1% versus 43.8%. ELA is the relative strength — 7th grade ELA at 38.9% is the highest grade-level result — and ELA outperforms math within every grade. The clearest recent change is the state rank: the school moved from 178th of 368 (52nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 to 278th of 371 (25th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026, after sitting near the middle of the pack in 2023–2024.
Chronic absenteeism is a relative bright spot at 30.3% in 2024–2025, better than the district's 31.3% and the state's 33.5%, though it still means nearly 1 in 3 students is chronically absent. About 62.68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and per-student spending is $21,807 with a student-teacher ratio of 16.9. This record includes no state spending or staffing comparisons, so those figures cannot be judged as high or low on their own.
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