Summary
Mountain View Middle School is a grades 6–8 school serving 507 students in Newberg, Oregon, part of Newberg School District 29J, a relatively strong district that ranks 20th of 141 Oregon districts. The school itself ranks 171st of 371 middle schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 54th percentile with 3 stars — slightly above the state median but below its own district. Its rank has drifted down from the 63rd percentile in 2022–2023 to 54th now, after a stronger stretch around 2018–2019.
Academically, the clearest weakness is English language arts: 36.4% of students met the standard, below the district's 47.8% and the state's 43.8%. That weakness is concentrated in 6th grade (30.1%) and 8th grade (32.7%), while 7th grade ELA (46.1%) is above both district and state. Math (35.0%) and science (31.4%) are slightly above state averages. The most direct comparison is Chehalem Valley Middle School, the other middle school in the same district about 1.67 miles away, which ranks in the 81st percentile and scores higher in every subject (ELA 48.7%, math 48.0%, science 39.8%). Mountain View serves a higher share of students from low-income families (69.43% vs. 49.76% free/reduced lunch) and spends less per student ($15,402 vs. $16,695).
Attendance is a relative strength: chronic absenteeism was 28.0% in 2024–2025, below the district's 29.4% and the state's 33.5%, and improved from 33.5% in 2022–2023 — though still higher than top nearby schools such as Sherwood Middle School (22.3%). Subgroup results are mostly encouraging: students in special education, migrant students, and gifted students all rank above the school's overall percentile, and low-income students improved to the 55th percentile. English language learners are the exception, at the 21st percentile in their only reported year (2022–2023), a small and older data point to treat cautiously. Overall, Mountain View is a slightly above-average Oregon middle school with strengths in math, science, and attendance, and ELA — especially in 6th and 8th grades — as the clearest area for growth.
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