Summary:
ZIP code 97426 is home to exactly one public middle school — Creswell Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 244 students as part of Creswell School District 40 at 655 W Oregon Ave in Creswell, Oregon. Because it is the only middle school in the area, parents should measure it against district and state benchmarks rather than against neighboring schools. The school reports a high level of economic need, with 72.13% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and it spends $21,836 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 17.8:1. No test scores in the state record are suppressed, so all figures below are directly reported.
The school's clearest strengths are English language arts and 8th grade. All-grades ELA proficiency is 45.1%, above both the district (43.1%) and the state (43.8%). Eighth graders beat the state in all three tested subjects: ELA at 48.0% versus 41.5%, math at 34.0% versus 30.0%, and science at 30.7% versus 27.7%. Attendance is also a bright spot — chronic absenteeism is 26.7%, which is 3.1 points below the district and 6.8 points below the state, though more than one in four students is still chronically absent.
Math is the pressing concern. All-grades math proficiency is 29.3%, below the state's 32.9%, and 7th grade math is the weakest spot at 23.9% — 9.4 points behind the state and 21.2 points below the school's own 7th grade ELA figure. The school has held a 3-star rating for three years, but its percentile rank slipped from 66 in 2023–2024 to 58 in 2025–2026, and the district currently sits slightly higher at 62. Parents should read the strong 8th grade and ELA results as real strengths to build on, with math as the area most in need of attention.
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