Summary:
ZIP code 97362 has exactly one public middle school: Mt Angel Middle School in Mount Angel, OR, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 165 students as part of Mt Angel School District 91. This small school is the only middle school option in the ZIP code, so families in the area have a single public choice for these grades.
Academically, the school performs well above district and state averages in English language arts (ELA) and math. In 2025–2026, 64.7% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 51.6% in the district and 43.8% statewide. Eighth-grade ELA is especially strong at 75.4%, versus 41.5% statewide. Math proficiency is 39.1%, above the district’s 34.9% and the state’s 32.9%. Science is more mixed: 28.8% at all grades is slightly below the state’s 30.6%, but the 8th-grade science score of 28.8% is 1.1 points above the state’s 8th-grade average. Chronic absenteeism is a major strength at 18.5%, much lower than the district’s 26.6% and the state’s 33.5%, even though 70.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school has also improved its state rank from 155 of 371 (58th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 73 of 371 (80th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026.
Because the school is small, with 165 students, one student is roughly 0.6 percentage points schoolwide and about 1.8 points in a typical grade cohort, so year-to-year changes should be interpreted with caution. The gap between ELA and math proficiency is wider than the state’s: 25.6 points at the school versus 10.9 points statewide and 16.7 points in the district. The school spends $18,728 per student and has a student-teacher ratio of 16.3, though the data do not include state or district averages for those figures. Overall, this is a small, improving school with strong ELA outcomes, solid math performance, and notably low absenteeism despite high poverty.
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