Summary:
ZIP code 97035 contains exactly one middle school: Lakeridge Middle School, a grades 6–8 school at 4700 SW Jean Rd in Lake Oswego serving 888 students. It is the only middle school in the ZIP code and is part of Lake Oswego School District 7J, so the useful comparisons are against its district, the state, and its own track record rather than against other local middle schools.
Lakeridge is a sustained high performer. It ranked #20 of 371 Oregon middle schools in 2025–2026 with 5 stars, after #23 of 368 and #19 of 371 in the two prior years — three straight years near the top 5–6% statewide. Its district ranks #2 of 141 districts in Oregon at the 99th percentile with 5 stars. Proficiency is far above state averages: English Language Arts 71.3% versus 43.8%, math 61.4% versus 32.9%, and science 57.9% versus 30.6% — gaps of roughly 27–29 percentage points. Math is especially strong in grades 6 and 7, at 36.8 and 33.0 points above the state. Eighth-grade math, at 51.0%, is the lowest reported result and 3.1 points below the district's 8th-grade math rate, though still 21.0 points above the state. Chronic absenteeism is 17.2%, below the district's 18.1% and about half the state's 33.5%, yet still about 1 in 6 students.
Context matters in reading these numbers. Free/reduced-price lunch participation is 12.27%, per-student spending is $19,041, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.7:1 — a relatively well-resourced, lower-poverty setting. Note that district "all grades" figures may cover grade spans beyond middle school; Lakeridge is above district ELA in grades 6, 7, and 8 and above district math in grades 6 and 7, making grade-level comparisons the more directly comparable ones.
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