Summary:
ZIP code 97132 is home to two middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Mountain View Middle School and Chehalem Valley Middle School — both part of Newberg School District 29J, which ranks 20th of 141 Oregon districts (86th percentile, 4 stars), and together they enroll 929 students.
Chehalem Valley Middle School is the academic standout, with 422 students and a 2025–2026 rank of 72nd of 371 schools (81st percentile, 4 stars). That rank has been stable for three years, holding between the 77th and 81st percentile with 4 stars each year. It outperformed both the district and the state in all-grade ELA (48.7%), math (48.0%), and science (39.8%). Math is its strongest suit — 48.0% proficient is 5.8 points above the district and 15.1 points above the state, and 7th-grade math reaches 54.8%, 21.5 points above the state. Its only soft spot is 7th-grade ELA, at 44.0%, just below the district's 45.2% and the state's 45.3%. Its chronic absenteeism rate is 32.4%, above the district's 29.4% but still below the state's 33.5%.
Mountain View Middle School, with 507 students, ranks 171st of 371 (54th percentile, 3 stars) and has slipped from the 61st to the 57th to the 54th percentile over three years. ELA is its clearest weakness at 36.4% proficient — 11.4 points below the district and 7.4 points below the state — while all-grade math (35.0%) and science (31.4%) sit above state levels but below the district. Notably, its chronic absenteeism of 28.0% beats the district's 29.4%, the state's 33.5%, and Chehalem Valley's 32.4%, even though its free/reduced-lunch rate is much higher (69.43% vs. 49.76%). Mountain View also spends $1,293 less per student ($15,402 vs. $16,695), though student-teacher ratios are nearly identical (21.3 vs. 21.4).
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