Summary:
ZIP code 97214 contains exactly one middle school — Hosford Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 537 students at 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no local peer to compare against, so the useful benchmarks are its district, Portland School District 1J, and the state of Oregon. Hosford is a top-decile school: ranked 32nd of 371 Oregon middle schools (91st percentile, 5 stars) in 2025‑26, while its district ranks 12th of 141 districts (91st percentile, 5 stars).
Academically, the school outperforms both its district and the state on all 11 reported test metrics. All-grades proficiency in English language arts is 66.6% (district 57.8, state 43.8), math is 54.8% (district 50.5, state 32.9), and science is 48.8% (district 45.1, state 30.6) — margins of roughly 18 to 28 points above the state. Seventh grade is the clear peak, with ELA at 69.4% and math at 61.0%, both above the school's own all-grades averages. Eighth grade is the softer spot: ELA falls to 61.8% and math to 50.9%, and science (48.8%) is the school's lowest subject result. Science trails ELA by 17.8 points and math by 6.0 points, though the district and state show the same subject ordering.
The improvement trend is steady rather than a one-year spike: rank moved from 64th to 36th to 32nd over three years, with stars rising from 4 to 5. Chronic absenteeism is 24.9%, well below the district (32.5%) and state (33.5%), though it still represents roughly 134 students. About 41.9% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $21,365, and the student–teacher ratio is 18.9:1. Families should note the limits of this picture: only one year of subject-level test data is provided, there are no subgroup breakdowns, and no comparison figures exist for spending, lunch, or ratio.
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