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How has Cedar Heights Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
689
Middle
DISTRICT 681 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530816001346
Cedar Heights Middle School
2220 POTTERY AVE, PORT ORCHARD, WA 98366 · (360) 874-6020 · Kitsap County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 75% of Washington public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
295 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 | 242 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 222 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 225 | 33% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
58.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.0pp since 2014
Math
47.1%
WA avg 51.2% . +3.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.8% | 47.1% |
| 2023-24 | 55.6% | 45.2% |
| 2022-23 | 59.2% | 44.3% |
| 2021-22 | 56.6% | 42.1% |
| 2018-19 | 59.4% | 46.5% |
| 2017-18 | 54.8% | 44.4% |
| 2016-17 | 58.1% | 41.9% |
| 2015-16 | 66.2% | 46.3% |
| 2014-15 | 61.8% | 43.6% |
% 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
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Cedar Heights Middle School
Cedar Heights Middle School's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Heights Middle School this school | 689 | 42.8% | 51.0% |
| Aylen Jr High Puyallup | 720 | 43.9% | 42.9% |
| Sumner Middle School Sumner | 674 | 43.6% | 59.2% |
| Orting Middle School Orting | 643 | 40.0% | 34.7% |
| Whatcom Middle School Bellingham | 637 | 42.4% | 50.9% |
| George Bush Middle School Tumwater | 762 | 39.0% | 49.4% |
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 Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #85 of 294 | #4 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #93 of 357 ▲ 2 | #5 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #96 of 357 ▲ 10 | #5 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.6pp | #109 of 290 | #4 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #138 of 377 | #5 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #114 of 340 | #4 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #153 of 340 | #7 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #235 of 359 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #75 of 192 | #3 of 9 |
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
689
+59 (+9%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 728
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
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 | 689 | 37.6 | 18.3:1 | 43% (295) |
| 2023-24 | 660 | 35.2 | 18.8:1 | 47% (307) |
| 2022-23 | 653 | 35.7 | 18.3:1 | 46% (302) |
| 2020-21 | 630 | 36 | 17.5:1 | 37% (236) |
| 2017-18 | 801 | 36 | 22.2:1 | 42% (335) |
| 2015-16 | 718 | 33 | 21.8:1 | 44% (319) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | 36 | 19.1:1 | 28% (193) |
| 2000-01 | 726 | 33 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 728 | 34 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Heights Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (801 to 689); teachers up 4% (36 to 37.6).
About Cedar Heights Middle School
In PORT ORCHARD, Washington, part of Kitsap County, Cedar Heights Middle School is a middle school. The school counts 689 students across grades 6 through 8.
South Kitsap School District counts 9,326 students in its 17 schools, and Cedar Heights Middle School is one of them.
White students account for 58% of enrollment at Cedar Heights Middle School. Smaller groups are 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. For comparison, the population of Kitsap County is roughly 75% White. Cedar Heights Middle School has a diversity index of 60%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The teaching staff at Cedar Heights Middle School is 37.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 18.3:1. Middle schools in Washington average about 18.9:1, a similar figure. About 43% of students, or 295, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is close to the 41% average for public schools in Kitsap County.
allk12 grades Cedar Heights Middle School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Washington public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Cedar Heights Middle School is -0.5 points: 51.0% actual, 51.5% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Kitsap County show that median household income is about $104,158, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 77 public schools operate in Kitsap County, serving about 34,233 students.
Kitsap Co Detention Ctr is the public school closest to Cedar Heights Middle School, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 43.2%; Cedar Heights Middle School's is 51.0%, ranking 1st of 7.
NCES assigns Cedar Heights Middle School the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 689 was 9% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 630.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Cedar Heights Middle School. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Kitsap School District
- South Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 2,448 students
- John Sedgwick Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Marcus Whitman Middle SchoolMiddle · 623 students
- Orchard Heights ElementaryElementary · 529 students
- Sunnyslope Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
- Sidney Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
Other schools in PORT ORCHARD
- South Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 2,448 students
- John Sedgwick Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Marcus Whitman Middle SchoolMiddle · 623 students
- Orchard Heights ElementaryElementary · 529 students
- Sunnyslope Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
- Sidney Glen Elementary SchoolElementary · 502 students
Other Cedar Heights Middle schools
One other US public school is named Cedar Heights Middle. Cedar Heights Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolCovington, WA · 876 students
Nearby schools
- Kitsap Co Detention Ctr0.6 mi · 2
- Sidney Glen Elementary School0.7 mi · 502
- East Port Orchard Elementary1.4 mi · 423
- Hidden Creek Elementary School2.0 mi · 439
- South Kitsap High School2.1 mi · 2,448
- Explorer Academy2.1 mi · 286
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Heights Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cedar Heights Middle School?
Cedar Heights Middle School enrolls approximately 689 students in grades 06-08.
Is Cedar Heights Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cedar Heights Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Cedar Heights Middle School have?
Cedar Heights Middle School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cedar Heights Middle School?
At Cedar Heights Middle School, the student body is approximately 58% White, 20% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Cedar Heights Middle School in?
Cedar Heights Middle School is part of South Kitsap School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.