Beaumont Middle School vs Harrison Park School

Beaumont Middle School and Harrison Park School sit 3.7 miles apart in Portland, Oregon, and both earn strong marks — but Beaumont edges ahead with a 9.6/10 overall rating versus Harrison Park's 9.2/10, a 0.4-point gap that reflects meaningfully different academic outcomes. More striking is the state ranking: Beaumont Middle School sits at #3 of 1,226 schools in Oregon, while Harrison Park School ranks #28 of 1,226 — both elite positions, but Beaumont's is exceptional by any measure.

The academic score is where the two schools diverge most sharply. Beaumont Middle School scores 9.6/10 in academics compared to Harrison Park School's 8.3/10 — a 1.3-point gap that represents a real difference in tested proficiency levels. Growth tells a different story: both schools score an identical 9.8/10, meaning students at Harrison Park are making roughly the same year-over-year learning gains as students at Beaumont. Harrison Park's high growth score relative to its academic score suggests it is accelerating students who may have entered behind grade level.

Both schools serve grades 6–8 and share an identical 64% free and reduced-price lunch rate, so family income profiles are essentially the same — a useful baseline for comparing raw academic outcomes. Beaumont Middle School enrolls 434 students versus Harrison Park School's 321, making Harrison Park the smaller campus by 113 students. Harrison Park's student-teacher ratio of 13.4:1 is tighter than Beaumont's 15.5:1, meaning Harrison Park students get roughly two more minutes of teacher attention per hour on average — a difference that can matter for students who benefit from closer adult support.

Both schools cover the same grade span and draw from a similar socioeconomic population, which makes the academic score gap between them a genuine reflection of where students perform on standardized measures rather than an artifact of demographic difference. The growth parity confirms that both schools are actively moving students forward; the divergence lies in where students arrive and how proficient they test out.