Summary:
ZIP code 97479 has one middle school, Sutherlin Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 297 students in Sutherlin School District 130. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, parents cannot compare it with another local middle school; the most useful comparisons are to the district and Oregon statewide averages. The district ranks 127th of 141, 10th percentile, 1 star. The school reports 64.65% free/reduced lunch, $18,767 per-student spending, and a 15.6 student-teacher ratio.
Academically, the school is below Oregon averages in every reported subject for 2025–2026. All-grade English Language Arts proficiency is 28.5% versus 43.8% statewide, mathematics is 17.4% versus 32.9%, and science is 18.5% versus 30.6%. Mathematics is the weakest area, at roughly half the state rate, and 7th-grade ELA shows the largest grade-level gap: 23.2% versus 45.3%, a 22.1-point difference. In several grade-level subjects, the school is equal to or only slightly different from its district, suggesting its results are closely tied to district patterns. Its rank history has also declined: 251st of 371, 32 percentile, 2 stars in 2023–2024; 273rd of 368, 26 percentile, 1 star in 2024–2025; and 302nd of 371, 19 percentile, 1 star in 2025–2026.
One relative bright spot is attendance. In 2024–2025, chronic absenteeism was 30.7% at the school, lower than the district’s 34.1% and the state’s 33.5%. That is better than both benchmarks, but it still means roughly 3 in 10 students were chronically absent. Overall, parents should know that Sutherlin Middle School has low academic proficiency relative to Oregon, a declining rank over three years, and attendance that is better than district and state averages but still high. The clearest academic priorities are mathematics overall and 7th-grade ELA. No proficiency values in this record were suppressed; all reported test scores are exact percentages.
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