Summary:
ZIP code 97002 is home to a single middle school, North Marion Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 410 students in Aurora, Oregon as part of North Marion School District 15; because it is the only middle school in the area, the useful comparisons are to district and state averages rather than to other local schools.
Academically, the school trails Oregon averages in every reported subject and grade. In 2025–2026, all-grade English Language Arts proficiency was 30.0% versus the state's 43.8%, math was 14.2% versus 32.9%, and science was 11.0% versus 30.6%. The narrowest gap is 6th grade ELA at 35.3% against the state's 41.8%, while the widest is 7th grade math at 10.8% against the state's 33.3% — roughly one-third of the state rate and the lowest figure in the record. Notably, the school's grade-level results match the district's exactly in every reported middle-grade subject. Rank history has also swung: the school reached 240 of 368 (35th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 before falling to 322 of 371 (13th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026.
Two other figures matter for context. Chronic absenteeism sits at 33.9%, only 0.4 points above the district and state rate of 33.5%, so about one in three students is chronically absent — a concern, but not a dramatic outlier. Meanwhile, 88.05% of students qualify for free/reduced-price lunch and per-student spending is $18,921, with a student-teacher ratio of 17.8. The district as a whole ranks 133 of 141 (6th percentile, 0 stars). Taken together, the picture is a high-need, comparatively well-funded school with substantial room to grow academically.
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