Toledo Junior High

Toledo Junior High is a small 7th–8th grade middle school in Toledo, Oregon, serving about 72 students as part of the Lincoln County School District — the smallest school in this comparison group, with roughly 35 students per grade.

The school's academic results are low across the board and have been for years. In 2025-26, 17.3% of students met the standard in English language arts, 7.2% in math, and 10.8% in science, compared with district rates of 34.4%, 20.2%, and 24.1% and state rates of 43.8%, 32.9%, and 30.6%. Toledo ranked 360th of 371 Oregon middle schools — the 3rd percentile — with zero stars, and it has sat in the bottom 6% in nearly every year on record since 2018-19; the one brighter year, 2021-22, reached only the 15th percentile with 1 star. The clearest comparison is Waldport Middle School, which is in the same district, serves the same grades 7–8, has a similar enrollment (85), and receives the identical $9,100 per student — yet posts 65.2% in ELA, 30.8% in math, and 34.1% in science, ranking 96th of 371 (74th percentile) with 4 stars. Even Newport Middle School, which spends $19,467 per student, reaches higher proficiency than Toledo at the 24th percentile with 1 star.

Chronic absenteeism is Toledo's most visible systemic gap: 46.2% of students missed 10% or more of school days in 2024-25, versus 39.1% in the district, 33.5% statewide, and just 20.5% at Waldport. Notably, Toledo already has the smallest classes of the three schools (a 13.5 student-teacher ratio), so neither class size nor per-pupil funding explains the results. The weakest band is 8th grade — 5.4% in math and 10.8% in ELA — the cohort heading into high school next. Because the school is so small, single-year swings move in roughly 3-point steps and should be read as directional trends rather than precise figures. The data points to attendance and building-level practice, not money or class size, as the most plausible levers for improvement.