Summary:
Zip code 97220, covering the Parkrose area of northeast Portland, has exactly one middle school: Parkrose Middle School, which enrolls 618 students in grades 6 through 8 and belongs to Parkrose School District 3. With no second middle school in the ZIP, there is no local peer to compare against — the useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Oregon. Test scores and rankings are reported for 2025-2026, while absenteeism, spending, and staffing figures come from 2024-2025, so the measures describe close but not identical school years.
Academically, the school trails Oregon in every subject. English language arts proficiency is 29.8% against 43.8% statewide, math is 14.6% against 32.9%, and 8th grade science is 10.3% against 30.6%. One bright spot stands out: 6th grade ELA reaches 40.9%, essentially matching the state's 41.8%. But ELA then falls to 24.5% in 7th grade and 21.3% in 8th — a steep one-year drop. Math is the sharper concern: here math proficiency is only about half the ELA rate, while statewide it is roughly three-quarters. The school's ranking has held steady at the 16th percentile of Oregon middle schools (rank 313 of 371, 1 star) for three consecutive years.
Nearly half of students — 47.9% — are chronically absent, about 1.43 times the state rate of 33.5% and above the district's 45.5%. The school spends $19,276 per student, an estimated $11.9 million across 618 students, with a student-teacher ratio of 17.8, or roughly 35 teachers; the data includes no state or district spending benchmark, so no conclusion about resource efficiency can be drawn. One reported figure, free/reduced lunch at 128.8%, exceeds 100% and therefore cannot be read as a share of low-income students.
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