Summary:
Zip code 97148 contains exactly one middle school: Yamhill Carlton Intermediate School, serving grades 4 through 8 with 369 students in Yamhill, part of Yamhill Carlton School District 1. Because it appears to be the district's only testing unit at these grades, its grade-level scores are identical to the district's at every level — so there is no second school here to compare against. Roughly half its students (50.41%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending is $14,384, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.3 to 1.
The school's clearest strengths are early literacy and attendance. It beats Oregon in 4th-grade ELA (45.1% vs 43.5%) and 5th-grade ELA (50.8% vs 47.1%), and 5th-grade science essentially matches the state (30.5% vs 30.8%). Chronic absenteeism sits at 24.2%, well below the state's 33.5%, though slightly above the district's 22.2% — a strong showing for a school with meaningful economic need in its population.
The concerns concentrate in math and in 8th grade. No grade level reaches the state mark in math, and all-grades math is 21.9% against the state's 32.9%. Eighth grade is the lowest-performing grade in ELA (33.9% vs 41.5%), math (9.7% vs 30.0%) and science (8.1% vs 27.7%), and the school's rank percentile slipped from 35 to 27 with a 1-star rating in the most recent year. With roughly 74 students per grade, single-year swings can reflect cohort composition as much as instruction, so the consistent 8th-grade pattern — not any one number — is what's worth watching. Spending and staffing do not look austere, so this doesn't read as an under-resourced building.
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