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What's something Cedar Heights Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
876
Middle
DISTRICT 803 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530396001142
Cedar Heights Middle School
19640 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA 98042 · (253) 373-7620 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL876 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
443 students
DISTRICT 55% · 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 | 284 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 284 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 308 | 35% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
43.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.6pp since 2014
Math
24.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -31.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 31 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.3% | 24.5% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 27.1% |
| 2022-23 | 49.7% | 30.1% |
| 2021-22 | 49.3% | 30.0% |
| 2018-19 | 54.3% | 42.1% |
| 2017-18 | 57.7% | 47.2% |
| 2016-17 | 61.1% | 50.0% |
| 2015-16 | 62.8% | 57.8% |
| 2014-15 | 56.8% | 55.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Cedar Heights Middle School
Cedar Heights Middle School's state test result (35.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Heights Middle School this school | 876 | 50.6% | 35.0% |
| Meadowdale Middle School LYNNWOOD | 740 | 52.7% | 52.5% |
| Olympic View Middle School Mukilteo | 851 | 49.1% | 48.4% |
| Liberty Middle School Spanaway | 857 | 54.0% | 36.5% |
| Glacier View Junior High Puyallup | 843 | 45.2% | 42.2% |
| Ballou Jr High Puyallup | 852 | 49.4% | 43.6% |
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 Cedar Heights Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #190 of 294 | #55 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #263 of 357 ▼ 35 | #61 of 76 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #212 of 357 ▼ 18 | #54 of 76 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.8pp | #14 of 290 | #5 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 876 | #37 of 377 | #21 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.3:1 | #233 of 340 | #47 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.5% | #53 of 340 | #30 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.6% | #177 of 359 | #28 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.7% | #9 of 130 | #4 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
876
+241 (+38%) vs 2020
-11% since 2000-01, when it was 982
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
was 19.2:1
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 | 876 | 43.2 | 20.3:1 | 51% (443) |
| 2023-24 | 914 | 46.3 | 19.8:1 | 53% (488) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 33 | 18.3:1 | 54% (326) |
| 2020-21 | 635 | 33 | 19.2:1 | 46% (293) |
| 2017-18 | 641 | 32.7 | 19.6:1 | 48% (307) |
| 2015-16 | 674 | 31 | 21.7:1 | 43% (288) |
| 2010-11 | 711 | 36 | 19.8:1 | 24% (173) |
| 2000-01 | 982 | 48 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Heights Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (641 to 876); teachers up 32% (32.7 to 43.2).
About Cedar Heights Middle School
Cedar Heights Middle School is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in Covington, Washington, under Kent School District. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 876 students on the rolls. Across middle schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 577.
The district, Kent School District, operates 44 schools serving 25,358 students.
White students make up 43% of enrollment at Cedar Heights Middle School, the largest share of any group. Next come 19% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% Black, and 10% multiracial. That compares with about 55% White among all King County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 74%.
Staffing at Cedar Heights Middle School comes to 43.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.3:1. Middle schools in Washington have an average ratio of 18.9:1. On the income side, 51% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 38% average among public schools in King County.
Cedar Heights Middle School trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 11.3 points (35.0% versus 46.3%), a bottom-10% result in Washington on BeatsExpectations.
For King County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $124,746 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Cedar Heights Middle School, King County has 544 public schools.
Cedar Valley Elementary School is the nearest public school to Cedar Heights Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. Cedar Heights Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Cedar Heights Middle School ranks 9th on proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
The school's student count increased 38% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio increased from 19.2:1 to 20.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Kent School District
- Kentridge High SchoolHigh · 2,186 students
- Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Kent-Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,639 students
- Kentlake High SchoolHigh · 1,561 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
- Mill Creek Middle SchoolMiddle · 866 students
Other schools in Covington
- Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Maple View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,046 students
- Mattson Middle SchoolMiddle · 719 students
- Covington Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Crestwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
- Jenkins Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 340 students
Other Cedar Heights Middle schools
One other US public school is named Cedar Heights Middle. Cedar Heights Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolPORT ORCHARD, WA · 689 students
Nearby schools
- Cedar Valley Elementary School0.5 mi · 318
- Jenkins Creek Elementary School0.7 mi · 340
- Grass Lake Elementary School1.1 mi · 337
- Crestwood Elementary School1.6 mi · 386
- Kentwood High School2.0 mi · 1,995
- Kentlake High School2.2 mi · 1,561
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Heights Middle SchoolHow large is Cedar Heights Middle School?
Cedar Heights Middle School enrolls approximately 876 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Cedar Heights Middle School serve?
Cedar Heights Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Cedar Heights Middle School have?
Cedar Heights Middle School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.3:1.
How diverse is Cedar Heights Middle School?
Cedar Heights Middle School reports a student body of 43% White, 19% Hispanic, 12% Black, 13% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Cedar Heights Middle School public or private?
Cedar Heights Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kent School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.