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Enrollment
564
Middle
DISTRICT 656 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530108000178
Central Kitsap Middle School
3850 NW Anderson Hill Rd, SILVERDALE, WA 98383 · (360) 662-2300 · Kitsap County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL564 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of Washington public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
19.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.2:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
186 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 174 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 206 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 184 | 33% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
55.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -18.3pp since 2014
Math
37.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -32.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 18 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 32 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.1% | 37.2% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 34.7% |
| 2022-23 | 52.4% | 35.9% |
| 2021-22 | 60.6% | 39.6% |
| 2018-19 | 69.0% | 58.0% |
| 2017-18 | 63.5% | 53.5% |
| 2016-17 | 66.8% | 60.6% |
| 2015-16 | 72.5% | 70.0% |
| 2014-15 | 73.4% | 69.4% |
% 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
43.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% 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 Central Kitsap Middle School
Central Kitsap Middle School's state test result (43.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Kitsap Middle School this school | 564 | 33.0% | 43.8% |
| Tumwater Middle School Tumwater | 665 | 35.6% | 50.0% |
| Mason Middle School Tacoma | 639 | 29.6% | 54.7% |
| Haller Middle School Arlington | 576 | 37.0% | 38.1% |
| Lincoln Middle School Pullman | 643 | 37.6% | 60.6% |
| Poulsbo Middle School Poulsbo | 713 | 34.5% | 50.8% |
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 Central Kitsap Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #125 of 294 | #7 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #152 of 357 ▲ 5 | #7 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #122 of 357 ▲ 31 | #7 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #27 of 290 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 564 | #217 of 377 | #8 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #176 of 340 | #7 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.9% | #150 of 340 | #6 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.0% | #285 of 359 | #9 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #36 of 192 | #1 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
564
-146 (-21%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 895
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 22.2:1
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 | 564 | 29.2 | 19.3:1 | 33% (186) |
| 2023-24 | 591 | 27.4 | 21.6:1 | 34% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 29.8 | 21.2:1 | 36% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 710 | 32 | 22.2:1 | 18% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 709 | 31.6 | 22.5:1 | 22% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | 23 | 21.3:1 | 32% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 814 | 39 | 20.9:1 | 17% (137) |
| 2000-01 | 943 | 43 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 895 | 43 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Central Kitsap Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (709 to 564); teachers down 7% (31.6 to 29.2).
About Central Kitsap Middle School
Central Kitsap Middle School serves students in SILVERDALE, Washington, as a mid-sized middle-grades school. The school has 564 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8.
Central Kitsap School District operates 19 schools. Combined enrollment is 11,100 students.
The student body at Central Kitsap Middle School is 58% White. Other reported shares: 17% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% Black. Kitsap County's residents are about 75% White, 17 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 60, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 19.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Central Kitsap Middle School, which has 29.2. That is in line with the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Central Kitsap Middle School is about 33%.
Among Washington public middle schools, Central Kitsap Middle School outscored 28%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
In Washington, Central Kitsap Middle School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 43.8% compared with a predicted 58.1%.
The school's county is Kitsap County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $104,158 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Kitsap County number 77, with about 34,233 students.
The closest school to Central Kitsap Middle School is Central Kitsap High School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Central Kitsap Middle School is 8th of 9 on proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put Central Kitsap Middle School inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Central Kitsap Middle School had a net loss of 146 students, or 21%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 22.2:1 in 2020-21, and 19.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Central Kitsap School District
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Barker Creek Community SchoolCombined · 551 students
Other schools in SILVERDALE
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Emerald Heights ElementaryElementary · 466 students
- Clear Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Silver Ridge ElementaryElementary · 430 students
Nearby schools
- Central Kitsap High School0.0 mi · 1,564
- Silverdale Elementary1.1 mi · 413
- Ridgetop Middle School1.5 mi · 784
- Silver Ridge Elementary1.6 mi · 430
- Clear Creek Elementary School2.1 mi · 448
- Emerald Heights Elementary2.2 mi · 466
Frequently asked questions
About Central Kitsap Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Central Kitsap Middle School?
Central Kitsap Middle School enrolls approximately 564 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Central Kitsap Middle School serve?
Central Kitsap Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Central Kitsap Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Central Kitsap Middle School is approximately 19.3:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Central Kitsap Middle School?
Central Kitsap Middle School reports a student body of 58% White, 15% Hispanic, 3% Black, 4% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Is Central Kitsap Middle School public or private?
Central Kitsap Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Central Kitsap School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.