Summary
Estacada Middle School is a 6–8 campus of 460 students in Estacada School District 108, a small district southeast of Portland, and it ranks 281 of 371 Oregon middle schools — the 24th percentile, or 1 star, in 2025-26. About 51.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the lowest rate among the nearby schools it is usually compared with. The most striking fact is how far the school sits below its own district: the district ranks 36 of 141 (74th percentile, 4 stars) while its only middle school sits in the bottom quarter — roughly a 50-point gap, the widest in this comparison group. Rankings over the past decade have stayed in the bottom quarter, recovering only modestly from a 4th-percentile low in 2022-23.
The closest and most similar school is also the most revealing comparison. Boring Middle School, 9.8 miles away, has almost the same enrollment (427) and almost identical spending ($15,045 versus $14,939 per student), and serves a higher share of low-income students — yet it posts 58.7% proficiency in English language arts and 39.4% in math, against 30.0% and 20.8% here. Estacada also has the highest student-teacher ratio in the group, 23.1, and spends about 20% less per student than the nearby average of roughly $18,800. Chronic absenteeism, once a strength when it was well below the state rate, reached 35.1% in 2024-25 — now slightly above Oregon's 33.5%.
Within the school, results vary by grade. Eighth grade is strongest, with English language arts at 38.7, within about 3 points of the state, while seventh grade is weakest, trailing the state by 21 points in English language arts (23.9 vs. 45.3). Science is the largest single gap: 19.7% here against a district rate of 36.6%. Two subgroups are the main concerns: low-income students rank at the 5th percentile after sitting near the 40th percentile in the two prior years, a swing that partly reflects a change in how Oregon counts these students, and students with disabilities rank at the 8th percentile.
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