Summary:
ZIP code 97734 is served by exactly one middle school — Culver Middle School — which enrolls 162 students in grades 6–8 and belongs to Culver School District 4 in Culver, Oregon. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no other local schools to compare it with directly; the most useful comparisons are to its own district and to Oregon statewide averages.
Academically, the results are split. English language arts is a clear strength: 55.3% of students met the proficiency standard, above the district’s 47.5% and the state’s 43.8%, and every grade level — 6th, 7th, and 8th — scored above the state average, with 7th grade ELA highest at 60.4%. Math is the opposite story. Only 14.2% of students were proficient, compared with 20.1% in the district and 32.9% statewide, and math fell below the state average at every grade level, with 8th grade math lowest at 12.5%. That leaves a wide gap between reading and math performance — about 41 percentage points at the all-grade level, and nearly 46 points in 7th grade. Science sits in the middle: 22.0% proficient, above the district’s 18.2% but below the state’s 30.6%.
Attendance is a genuine bright spot. Chronic absenteeism at the school was 21.7%, lower than the district’s 28.3% and the state’s 33.5%, and this comes despite a high free/reduced lunch rate of 70.99%. The school spends $19,459 per student, and its student-teacher ratio is 15.2. Its most recent state ranking is 196 of 371 schools, or the 47th percentile, for 2025–2026, after a stronger 2023–2024 at the 60th percentile. The district as a whole ranks lower, at 115 of 141.
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