Beaver Lake Middle School

Beaver Lake Middle School is a middle school of moderately sized scale in ISSAQUAH, Washington, part of Issaquah School District, teacheing 699 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 21% larger than typical.

Issaquah School District comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 19,098 students; Beaver Lake Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Beaver Lake Middle School shows that 45% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 35% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 21% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Beaver Lake Middle School shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Beaver Lake Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 80.5%.

Zooming out to the county, King County reports that median household earnings sit near $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Beaver Lake Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Challenger Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Beaver Lake Middle School comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 81.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 837 students in 2018 compared to 699 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 52% to 35%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Beaver Lake Middle School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.