Summary:
ZIP code 97503 (White City, Oregon) is home to exactly one middle school — White Mountain Middle School — which serves 377 students in grades 6–8 and belongs to Eagle Point School District 9.
Since there is only one middle school in this area, there are no neighborhood schools to compare it with, so the most useful benchmarks are the school's own district and Oregon as a whole. In 2025–2026 testing, the school trailed both on every subject. English language arts proficiency was 29.9%, against 32.8% in the district and 43.8% statewide. Math was 16.0%, versus 24.1% in the district and 32.9% statewide — roughly half the state rate. Science came in at 19.2%, compared with 22.0% in the district and 30.6% statewide. Math is the weakest area, and 8th grade is the weakest grade: 8th-grade math was 12.9%, ELA 25.5%, and science 19.2%. The single bright spot is 6th-grade ELA at 31.7%, which edges the district's 30.7% and is the only one of ten subject-by-grade comparisons where the school beats the district.
Context matters in reading these numbers. About 97.35% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school spends $16,151 per student with a student–teacher ratio of 18.4. Chronic absenteeism was 31.9%, slightly below the district's 33.3% and the state's 33.5% — the one measure where the school outperforms Oregon overall. The school's state percentile ranking also improved from the 8th to the 18th percentile in 2025–2026, a meaningful jump that restored a one-star rating, though it remains in the bottom fifth of Oregon middle schools.
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