Cougar Mountain Middle School

As an average-sized intermediate school in Issaquah, Washington, Cougar Mountain Middle School hosts 616 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Issaquah School District.

Cougar Mountain Middle School is one of 30 schools operated by Issaquah School District, a district that educates 19,098 students overall.

Demographically, Cougar Mountain Middle School reports that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 34% Asian, 11% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cougar Mountain Middle School has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Cougar Mountain Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than King County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Cougar Mountain Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.9%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (King County) reports that median household income runs about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Cougar Mountain Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Issaquah Valley Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cougar Mountain Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 62.4%.

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