Summary:
Middle schools in the Klamath Falls City Schools area consist of a single school: Ponderosa Middle School in Klamath Falls, Oregon, serving grades 6–8 with 561 students. Because it is the only middle school in this group, there are no in-district middle-school peers to compare against — the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state.
Ponderosa's strongest results are 8th grade science at 34.5% proficient, above the district's 32.9% and the state's 27.7%, and 7th grade ELA at 47.9%, above both the district (47.1%) and the state (45.3%). All-grades ELA is 40.3%, just above the district's 39.2% but below the state's 43.8%. Math is the clear weak spot: all-grades math is 22.9% proficient, 6.1 points below the district and 10.0 points below the state, and every grade level trails the state in math. The ELA-to-math gap is 17.4 points at Ponderosa, wider than the district's 10.2-point and the state's 10.9-point gaps, suggesting math is a disproportionate weakness here.
The school is improving but still below median. Its state rank rose from 232nd of 371 in 2023–2024 to 212th of 371 in 2025–2026, moving from the 37th to the 43rd percentile while holding 2 stars. The district overall ranks 63rd of 141, at the 55th percentile with 3 stars, so the middle school sits below the district's overall standing. Chronic absenteeism is 39.8%, above the state's 33.5% but below the district's 42.4%. Per-student spending is $22,087 with a 20:1 student–teacher ratio. The reported free/reduced lunch rate of 100.53% exceeds 100%, likely a data artifact, but indicates that nearly all students are economically disadvantaged.
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