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What's one thing Cascade Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
671
Middle
DISTRICT 656 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HIGHLINE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530354000522
Cascade Middle School
11212 10th Ave Sw, Seattle, WA 98146 · (206) 631-5500 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
492 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 222 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 229 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 220 | 33% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
25.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.8pp since 2014
Math
16.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 25 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 are down about 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 15 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.5% | 16.5% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 12.8% |
| 2022-23 | 26.5% | 11.6% |
| 2021-22 | 26.1% | 11.6% |
| 2018-19 | 41.5% | 26.0% |
| 2017-18 | 36.3% | 26.9% |
| 2016-17 | 36.0% | 24.7% |
| 2015-16 | 43.1% | 32.6% |
| 2014-15 | 38.3% | 31.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cascade Middle School
Cascade Middle School's state test result (20.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Middle School this school | 671 | 73.3% | 20.5% |
| Kilo Middle School AUBURN | 669 | 73.7% | 31.1% |
| Glacier Middle School SeaTac | 803 | 75.5% | 14.6% |
| Mill Creek Middle School Kent | 866 | 73.0% | 12.1% |
| Pacific Middle School Des Moines | 604 | 74.3% | 20.4% |
| Baker Middle School Tacoma | 687 | 71.5% | 29.0% |
Matched among Washington middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cascade Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #273 of 294 | #72 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #315 of 357 ▲ 16 | #69 of 76 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #328 of 357 ▲ 8 | #73 of 76 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.2pp | #141 of 290 | #41 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #147 of 377 | #46 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #45 of 340 | #4 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.1% | #96 of 340 | #41 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.3% | #49 of 359 | #10 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.5% | #32 of 130 | #10 of 33 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
671
-115 (-15%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 653
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 17.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 671 | 39.8 | 16.9:1 | 73% (492) |
| 2023-24 | 662 | 43.4 | 15.3:1 | 75% (496) |
| 2022-23 | 683 | 43.8 | 15.6:1 | 83% (569) |
| 2020-21 | 786 | 45 | 17.5:1 | 77% (609) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 32.9 | 17.3:1 | 82% (466) |
| 2015-16 | 570 | 39 | 14.6:1 | 85% (485) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 34 | 15.7:1 | 72% (385) |
| 2000-01 | 674 | 31 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 653 | 33 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cascade Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (571 to 671); teachers up 21% (32.9 to 39.8).
About Cascade Middle School
Cascade Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Seattle, Washington, (ZIP code 98146). Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 671 students.
Cascade Middle School sits within Highline School District, which has 36 schools and 18,072 students.
Cascade Middle School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 49%. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Asian, 11% Black, 8% multiracial, and 7% White. In King County overall, about 11% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 39.8 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 16.9:1. This ratio sits 2.1 below the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 73%. That is 35 points above the 38% average for public schools in King County.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 20.5%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 31.0%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for King County show that the median household income is $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cascade Middle School is one of 544 public schools in the county.
Nearby, Evergreen High School is about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Cascade Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Cascade Middle School is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Cascade Middle School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Cascade Middle School declined 15% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 786 to 671 students.
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King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Highline School District
- Mount Rainier High SchoolHigh · 1,846 students
- Highline High SchoolHigh · 1,423 students
- Evergreen High SchoolHigh · 1,080 students
- Glacier Middle SchoolMiddle · 803 students
- Tyee High SchoolHigh · 644 students
- Chinook Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
Other schools in Seattle
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other Cascade Middle schools
8 other US public schools in 4 states are named Cascade Middle. Cascade Middle School is the 4th largest of the 9.
- Cascade Middle SchoolAUBURN, WA · 966 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolVancouver, WA · 815 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolSedro-Woolley, WA · 670 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolLongview, WA · 463 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolBend, OR · 687 students
Nearby schools
- Evergreen High School0.2 mi · 1,080
- Mount View Elementary0.4 mi · 460
- Highline Open Doors 14180.4 mi · 240
- Highline Public Schools Virtual Academy0.8 mi · 208
- White Center Heights Elementary0.8 mi · 527
- Shorewood Elementary1.0 mi · 400
Frequently asked questions
About Cascade Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cascade Middle School?
Cascade Middle School enrolls approximately 671 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Cascade Middle School serve?
Cascade Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Cascade Middle School have?
Cascade Middle School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Cascade Middle School?
Student demographics at Cascade Middle School are roughly 7% White, 49% Hispanic, 11% Black, 23% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Cascade Middle School in?
Cascade Middle School is part of Highline School District.
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