Summary
Creswell Middle School is a public school in Creswell, Oregon, serving about 244 students in grades 6–8 as part of Creswell School District 40, a small community south of Eugene. It is the smallest school in its local comparison group, and its 2025–2026 rank is 155th of 371 Oregon middle schools — the 58th percentile, with 3 stars. The district ranks 54th of 141, or the 62nd percentile, also with 3 stars. Recent rankings have cooled from a peak: 115th of 380 in 2022–2023, then 126th, 151st, and 155th. That is still well above the school's 2018–2019 showing of 226th of 379.
Academics are mixed. English Language Arts proficiency is 45.1%, above the state's 43.8% and the district's 43.1%. Math is 29.3%, below the state's 32.9%. Science is 30.7%, essentially tied with the state's 30.6%. Chronic absenteeism is 26.7%, better than the state's 33.5% and most nearby schools; only Roosevelt Middle School at 25.6% is slightly lower. Compared with 10 nearby schools, Creswell sits in the middle — ahead of Monroe Middle School, Hamlin Middle School, Agnes Stewart Middle School, and Lincoln Middle School, but behind Spencer Butte Middle School, Thurston Middle School, Roosevelt, Kennedy Middle School, Briggs Middle School, and Arts and Technology Academy at Jefferson.
Math is the clearest weakness, and it isn't uniform: 7th-grade math is 23.9% versus the state's 33.3%, while 8th-grade math is 34.0% versus 30.0%. Eighth-grade science at 30.7% is also above the state's 27.7%. Economic need has risen sharply — free/reduced lunch went from 43.02% in 2022–2023 to 72.13% in 2024–2025. Per-student spending is $21,836 (2024–2025), up from $18,445 in 2021–2022, and the student-teacher ratio is 17.8. The school ranks in the 77th percentile for low-income students but the 47th percentile for male students, versus the 66th percentile for female students — an internal gap worth watching.
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