Summary:
ZIP code 97051 contains just one public middle school — St Helens Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 563 students as part of St Helens School District 502 — so families in the Saint Helens area have a single public middle school option in this data set, and there are no within-ZIP peers to compare it against. The meaningful comparisons are with its own district and with the state of Oregon.
On the state assessments for 2025–2026, the school scored below the state proficiency rate in every subject and grade level reported. All-grades English language arts is 27.1% versus the state's 43.8%, all-grades math is 15.8% versus 32.9%, and all-grades science is 20.0% versus 30.6%. The largest grade-level gap is 8th-grade ELA at 20.7% against the state's 41.5%, and the lowest single result is 6th-grade math at 11.0%, 18.7 points below the state. Ranking has been persistently low: 312 of 371 schools (16th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026, 310 of 368 (16th percentile, 1 star) in 2024–2025, and 327 of 371 (12th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024, so the school remains in the bottom fifth statewide with only a slight improvement from 2023–2024.
The school generally tracks close to its district by grade level — 6th-grade ELA is 29.7% for both, 7th-grade math is 22.0% versus the district's 21.9%, 8th-grade math is 15.4% versus 15.3%, and 8th-grade science is 20.0% versus 19.6% — but the district itself sits below the state. Context indicators for 2024–2025 show chronic absenteeism at 39.9%, above the district's 38.9% and the state's 33.5%, and 73% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Per-student spending is $17,621, with an 18.3:1 student-teacher ratio; no district or state benchmarks for those two figures are provided here.
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