Canyon Ridge Middle School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
About Canyon Ridge Middle School
Located at 11000 SE 264th St, in Kent, Washington, Canyon Ridge Middle School is a medium-sized 6-8 campus that caters to 821 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Kent School District. Enrollment runs roughly 42% above the state mean of about 577.
Within Kent School District, which oversees 44 schools and 25,358 students, Canyon Ridge Middle School is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Canyon Ridge Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (25%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 23% Hispanic, 23% Asian, 14% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Canyon Ridge Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Canyon Ridge Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of -8.7 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for King County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Canyon Ridge Middle School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is The Outreach Program, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Canyon Ridge Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.
Canyon Ridge Middle School operates from a high-density location.
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