Summary:
ZIP code 97801 has exactly one middle school: Sunridge Middle School, a grades 6–8 school with 672 students in Pendleton, Oregon, part of Pendleton School District 16. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no local middle schools to compare it with; the most useful comparisons are with its district and with Oregon as a whole.
Academically, Sunridge scores below the state average in all three tested subjects. Overall English language arts proficiency is 35.7% (state 43.8%), mathematics is 23.1% (state 32.9%), and science is 26.6% (state 30.6%). The brightest spots are 6th grade ELA at 39.9% (state 41.8%), 8th grade math at 27.9% (state 30.0%), and 8th grade science at 26.6% (state 27.7%), each within about two points of the state. The clearest weakness is math overall, especially 7th grade math at 19.6%, which is 13.7 percentage points below the state; 6th grade math at 22.2% and 7th grade ELA at 33.9% are also notably behind.
Other context matters for families. Chronic absenteeism is 34.6%, slightly above the district rate of 33.3% and the state rate of 33.5%, so roughly one in three students is chronically absent. About 83.48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and per-student spending is $16,029 with a 19.9:1 student-teacher ratio, implying roughly 34 teachers for the school. Sunridge has held a 2-star rating in each of the last three reported years, but its percentile rank slipped from 44 to 39 to 35, ranking 243rd of 371 schools in 2025–2026. The district as a whole ranks 110th of 141 districts, in the 22nd percentile, with 1 star.
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