Summary:
ZIP code 97213 is home to a single middle school serving grades 6–8: Roseway Heights School, a 561-student campus in the Portland School District 1J. With only one school in the area, there are no local peers to compare against, so the useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Oregon. For context, the school reports a 42.25% free/reduced lunch rate, spends $24,039 per student, and runs a student-teacher ratio of 14.6 — roughly 38–39 teachers for the building.
Academically, the school clears the state bar in English Language Arts (+1.2 points) and math (+3.7 points) and sits essentially even in science, but it trails its own district in every subject and every grade level tested. The gaps are widest in science (17.4 points behind the district) and smallest in 7th grade, which is a genuine bright spot: 7th-grade math proficiency of 45% is the highest single figure in the school's data and lands 11.7 points above the state. Eighth grade is the soft spot. The longer view is encouraging — statewide rank improved from 254th to 126th over two cycles, moving from the 32nd to the 66th percentile and from 2 stars to 3.
The most urgent flag is attendance: 45.8% of students are chronically absent, more than 12 points worse than both the district (32.5%) and the state (33.5%). Since attendance often predicts achievement, it is the most measurable lever available. Overall, this is a mid-tier, rapidly improving school inside a top-tier district, with strong resources, a standout 7th-grade cohort, and clear room to grow in science, 8th grade, and daily attendance.
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