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Amboy Middle School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2022-23 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 49 and 39. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Amboy Middle School
Located at 22115 NE CHELATCHIE RD, in AMBOY, Washington, Amboy Middle School is a reasonably sized junior high that teaches 500 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within Battle Ground School District.
Battle Ground School District comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 12,754 students; Amboy Middle School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Amboy Middle School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.
On the income-and-resources front, Amboy Middle School records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,536, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Clark County runs 151 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,406 students), of which Amboy Middle School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Yacolt Primary, around 3.5 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.
Amboy Middle School operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Amboy Middle School's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 580 (now 500). The White share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 91% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Amboy Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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