Summary:
Grants Pass School District 7 in Oregon has two middle schools serving grades 6–8 — North Middle School and South Middle School — enrolling 1,283 students combined (673 at North, 610 at South). The district itself, Grants Pass School District 7, ranks 29th of 141 Oregon districts (79th percentile, 4 stars), and both middle schools received 4 stars in 2025–2026. All test-score figures below are exact percentages; none are suppressed, bounded, or given as ranges.
The two schools have distinct academic profiles. In English language arts, both beat the state's 43.8%: North scores 52.5% and South 51.3%, also above the district's 50.9%. Math is where they diverge — South is the standout at 38.9% all-grade proficiency, above the district (36.1%) and state (32.9%), while North sits at 31.9%, below both. South's 7th grade math score of 49.2% is the highest grade-level math result in this list and 15.9 points above the state. Science favors North: 37.2% all grades, above the district (36.5%) and well above the state (30.6%), compared with South's 31.0%, which is below the district but slightly above the state.
Rank history shows different trajectories. North has been steady, holding 71st–74th percentile and 4 stars across all three years, though its rank slipped from 96th in 2023–2024 to 108th in 2025–2026. South jumped from 161st of 368 (56th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 to 100th of 371 (73rd percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026, now edging ahead of North. Attendance is better at North: chronic absenteeism is 26.8% versus South's 30.1%, the district's 31.8%, and the state's 33.5%. North also spends more per student ($18,527 vs. $16,477) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (18.3 vs. 20.3) — so South's math gains and improved ranking came with fewer dollars per pupil and larger classes. Free/reduced lunch rates are high at both: 73.7% at North and 69.84% at South.
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