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Which teacher or staff member at East Valley Central Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
792
Middle
DISTRICT 677 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (YAKIMA)·NCES 530537000806
East Valley Central Middle School
2010 BEAUDRY RD, YAKIMA, WA 98901 · (509) 573-7500 · Yakima County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL792 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-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
18.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
494 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 | 248 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 259 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 285 | 36% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
East Valley Central Middle School→East Valley High School
Based on grade levels within East Valley School District (Yakima). Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
46.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.3pp since 2014
Math
30.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.8% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 37.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.2% | 35.7% |
| 2021-22 | 45.4% | 34.1% |
| 2018-19 | 61.0% | 52.6% |
| 2017-18 | 48.8% | 46.4% |
| 2016-17 | 49.0% | 43.7% |
| 2015-16 | 47.2% | 42.5% |
| 2014-15 | 44.5% | 37.3% |
% 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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 East Valley Central Middle School
East Valley Central Middle School's state test result (39.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Valley Central Middle School this school | 792 | 62.4% | 39.7% |
| Eastmont Junior High East Wenatchee | 687 | 62.6% | N/A |
| Frontier Middle School MOSES LAKE | 690 | 60.7% | 29.1% |
| Columbia Middle School MOSES LAKE | 875 | 58.9% | 36.8% |
| Mcloughlin Middle School PASCO | 1,171 | 58.9% | 30.9% |
| Garrison Middle School WALLA WALLA | 546 | 66.8% | 38.0% |
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 East Valley Central Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #154 of 294 | #2 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #214 of 357 ▼ 73 | #4 of 17 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #180 of 357 ▲ 12 | #2 of 17 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.3pp | #62 of 290 | #6 of 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 792 | #76 of 377 | #8 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #143 of 340 | #10 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.7% | #208 of 340 | #2 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.4% | #98 of 359 | #14 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.6% | #102 of 130 | #5 of 6 |
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
792
-6 (-1%) vs 2020
+57% since 1990-91, when it was 503
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 792 | 42.1 | 18.8:1 | 62% (494) |
| 2023-24 | 833 | 43.8 | 19.0:1 | 71% (592) |
| 2022-23 | 801 | 43.7 | 18.3:1 | 71% (568) |
| 2020-21 | 798 | 43 | 18.6:1 | 57% (457) |
| 2017-18 | 772 | 42.1 | 18.3:1 | 58% (451) |
| 2015-16 | 686 | 38 | 18.1:1 | 64% (440) |
| 2010-11 | 665 | 29 | 22.9:1 | 30% (197) |
| 2000-01 | 388 | 18 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 503 | 25 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for East Valley Central Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (772 to 792); teachers unchanged (42.1 to 42.1).
About East Valley Central Middle School
Federal records list East Valley Central Middle School as a middle-grades school in YAKIMA, Washington. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 792 students. The average among middle schools in Washington is roughly 577 students; this school is 37% larger than that.
In East Valley School District (Yakima), 5 schools enroll a combined 3,387 students.
At East Valley Central Middle School, Hispanic students make up 57% of the student body. The remaining shares are 38% White and 3% multiracial. East Valley Central Middle School's diversity index is 54%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at East Valley Central Middle School is 42.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 18.8:1. That matches the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington fairly closely. About 62% of students, or 494, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 77% average among public schools in Yakima County.
East Valley Central Middle School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 57% of Washington public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 38.4% at East Valley Central Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 39.7%.
Among Yakima County residents, the median household income is $70,656, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Besides East Valley Central Middle School, Yakima County has 118 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, East Valley High School is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. East Valley Central Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, East Valley Central Middle School ranks 6th on proficiency.
East Valley Central Middle School is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 792, close to the 798 recorded in 2020-21.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Valley School District (Yakima)
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- East Valley ElementaryElementary · 562 students
- Moxee ElementaryElementary · 515 students
- Terrace Heights ElementaryElementary · 454 students
Other schools in YAKIMA
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Nearby schools
- East Valley High School0.2 mi · 1,064
- East Valley Elementary0.3 mi · 562
- Moxee Elementary1.9 mi · 515
- Terrace Heights Elementary3.0 mi · 454
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary3.5 mi · 485
- Union Gap School3.7 mi · 558
Frequently asked questions
About East Valley Central Middle SchoolHow many students attend East Valley Central Middle School?
East Valley Central Middle School enrolls approximately 792 students in grades 06-08.
Is East Valley Central Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
East Valley Central Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does East Valley Central Middle School have?
East Valley Central Middle School employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at East Valley Central Middle School?
At East Valley Central Middle School, the student body is approximately 38% White, 57% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is East Valley Central Middle School in?
East Valley Central Middle School is part of East Valley School District (Yakima).
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.