Summary:
ZIP code 97850 covers La Grande, Oregon, and contains exactly one middle school: La Grande Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 480 students as part of La Grande School District 1. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no neighboring middle schools to compare it with, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state.
Academically, the school is strongest in English Language Arts. All-grade ELA proficiency is 42.5%, a bit above the district's 41.9% and just under the state's 43.8%; 6th grade ELA is 45.3%, above the state's 41.8%. Math and science are the weaker areas: all-grade math is 26.5% proficient versus the district's 30.5% and the state's 32.9%, and all-grade science is 22.8% versus the district's 28.3% and the state's 30.6%. The math gap widens by grade — 6th grade is 1.8 points below the state, 7th grade 5.6 points below, and 8th grade 6.3 points below. Note that for every grade-level result shown, the district figure matches the school figure, which likely reflects that this is the district's only school serving grades 6–8; the state comparison is therefore the more informative grade-level benchmark.
Overall, the school is consistently mid-pack: 2 stars, 45th percentile, and a rank of 204 of 371 in 2025–2026, following percentiles of 46 and 49 in the two prior years. Attendance is a bright spot — chronic absenteeism is 29.0%, lower than the district's 31.0% and the state's 33.5% — though nearly three in ten students are still chronically absent. The school serves a majority economically disadvantaged population, with 63.75% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, per-student spending of $17,014, and an 18.5:1 student-teacher ratio.
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