Summary:
Lake Oswego School District 7J is home to two middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Lakeridge Middle School (888 students) and Lake Oswego Middle School (791 students) — together enrolling about 1,679 students in the Lake Oswego area. Both are among the strongest middle schools in Oregon: each holds 5 of 5 stars, ranks in the top ~5% of roughly 371 Oregon middle schools (20th and 21st), and their district, Lake Oswego School District 7J, ranks 2nd of 141 districts statewide. Both also cut the state's 33.5% chronic absenteeism rate roughly in half, at 17.2% and 18.2%.
The two schools look nearly identical by ranking but differ inside. Lakeridge is the ELA standout, beating its own district benchmark in 7 of 10 test comparisons and leading 8th-grade ELA by 7.7 points (68.4% vs. 60.7%) — the largest gap between the schools. Its soft spot is 8th-grade math, where it drops 15.3 points from 7th grade to 51.0%, the lowest figure in the data set. Lake Oswego Middle School is the 8th-grade math standout (57.5%, above the district's 54.1%) and owns the stronger three-year rank history — 7th and 12th statewide in the two prior years, versus Lakeridge's steady 19–23. In 2025‑2026 the two essentially converged. Overall math is a dead heat (61.4% vs. 61.6%) and science is close (57.9% vs. 56.8%).
Both schools post proficiency rates 1.5× to 1.9× the state average in ELA, math and science. Lake Oswego Middle School spends more per student ($20,171 vs. $19,041) and has the lower student-teacher ratio (15.3 vs. 16.7), though Lakeridge spends more in total — about $16.9M vs. $16.0M — because it enrolls more students. Test data cover only one year, so score trends cannot be measured.
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