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Cascade Middle School
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 324 | 48% |
| Grade 8 | 346 | 52% |
School pathway
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.6% | 29.9% |
| 2023-24 | 39.8% | 30.3% |
| 2022-23 | 38.6% | 28.2% |
| 2021-22 | 40.3% | 25.8% |
| 2018-19 | 55.3% | 38.8% |
| 2017-18 | 58.4% | 45.8% |
| 2016-17 | 43.6% | 39.6% |
| 2015-16 | 46.5% | 39.1% |
| 2014-15 | 49.0% | 39.0% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
Where Cascade Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #197 of 294 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #215 of 357 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.6% | #269 of 357 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.7pp | #187 of 290 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 670 | #148 of 377 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #225 of 340 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #237 of 340 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.8% | #143 of 359 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.9% | #94 of 130 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 670 | 33.2 | 20.2:1 | 56% (374) |
| 2023-24 | 678 | 33.8 | 20.0:1 | 56% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 697 | 33.2 | 21.0:1 | 58% (407) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 33 | 20.9:1 | 53% (367) |
| 2017-18 | 645 | 33 | 19.6:1 | 51% (327) |
| 2015-16 | 596 | 32 | 18.6:1 | 56% (332) |
| 2010-11 | 611 | 31 | 19.7:1 | 49% (302) |
| 2000-01 | 633 | 35 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 578 | 31 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
About Cascade Middle School
Cascade Middle School runs as a medium-sized middle school in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. It educates 670 students in grades 7 through 8.
Sedro-Woolley School District oversees Cascade Middle School and 10 other schools, with 4,600 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, Cascade Middle School is 65% White. After that, the student body is 27% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Skagit County is about 75% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Cascade Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 50%.
The school employs the equivalent of 33.2 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 20.2:1. Among middle schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 18.9:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 56%. That is close to the 56% average for public schools in Skagit County.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Cascade Middle School's results are 8.3 points below predicted: 34.5% against 42.8%.
County data help place the school in context: in Skagit County, median household income is about $89,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The public schools of Skagit County number 54 and enroll about 18,298.
The next-closest public school is Evergreen Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. In all, 7 other public schools sit within five miles of Cascade Middle School. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Cascade Middle School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Small: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 688 to 670.
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