Middle · Oregon
St Helens Middle School
Free meals for allSt Helens Middle School, a public middle school in St Helens, Oregon: grades 6–8, 563 students, 18.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of St Helens SD 502.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 563
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.6
- Students per teacher
- 18.4
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 53% of middle schools in Oregon
Median 18.2 · 209 schools compared
More students per teacher than 80% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 60% of middle schools in Oregon
Median 477 · 209 schools compared
Larger than 54% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Oregon's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Oregon: 43%24%proficient
+2.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 89% of middle schools in Oregon
Median 40% · 209 middle schools compared
521 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Smarter Balanced Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Oregon: 33%16%proficient
+1.1 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 83% of middle schools in Oregon
Median 27% · 209 middle schools compared
508 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Smarter Balanced Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Town near a city
- Run by
- St Helens SD 502
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with St Helens SD 502.
Location
- Address
- 354 N 15th St, St Helens, OR 97051
- Phone
- (503)366-7300
- City or town
- St. Helens
- County
- Columbia County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5–8 | 739 | 20.9 | |
| 5–6 | 616 | 19.9 | |
| 7–8 | 666 | 20.4 | |
| 6–8 | 441 | 19.1 | |
Scappoose Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 7–8 | 307 | 20.0 |
Otto Petersen Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 4–6 | 416 | 18.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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