Chehalis Middle School

Located at 1060 SW 20th Street, in Chehalis, Washington, Chehalis Middle School is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus that caters to 692 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Chehalis School District.

Within Chehalis School District, which oversees 8 schools and 3,142 students, Chehalis Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Chehalis Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest consists of 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at Chehalis Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chehalis Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.1%; this one delivers 40.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Lewis County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,796 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lewis County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,548 students), of which Chehalis Middle School is one.

Orin C Smith Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chehalis Middle School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

Chehalis Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Chehalis Middle School's enrollment has climbed 12% since 2018, when it stood at 617 (now 692). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 74% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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