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What's something Ellen Ochoa Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
831
Middle
DISTRICT 1,063 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530657002936
Ellen Ochoa Middle School
1801 E SHEPPARD ST, PASCO, WA 99301 · (509) 543-6742 · Franklin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL831 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Washington public middle schools
- FTest 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
18.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.9:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
756 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 271 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 285 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 275 | 33% |
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
18.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -6.9pp since 2014
Math
9.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 9 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.3% | 9.3% |
| 2023-24 | 17.3% | 10.0% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 11.2% |
| 2021-22 | 14.4% | 7.7% |
| 2018-19 | 25.1% | 14.6% |
| 2017-18 | 30.7% | 20.4% |
| 2016-17 | 27.1% | 19.3% |
| 2015-16 | 27.9% | 24.3% |
| 2014-15 | 25.2% | 21.1% |
% 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
14.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Ellen Ochoa Middle School
Ellen Ochoa Middle School's state test result (14.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen Ochoa Middle School this school | 831 | 91.0% | 14.2% |
| Lewis & Clark Middle School Yakima | 815 | 90.2% | 22.5% |
| Stevens Middle School PASCO | 956 | 91.7% | 16.7% |
| Toppenish Middle School TOPPENISH | 757 | 89.7% | 19.4% |
| Washington Middle School Yakima | 748 | 96.0% | 17.9% |
| Grandview Middle School Grandview | 815 | 84.8% | 31.6% |
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 Ellen Ochoa Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 14.2% | #291 of 294 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 9.3% | #353 of 357 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #352 of 357 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #129 of 290 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 831 | #55 of 377 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #152 of 340 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.2% | #333 of 340 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #6 of 359 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.9% | #31 of 130 |
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
831
-188 (-18%) vs 2020
-13% since 2010-11, when it was 958
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 19.2:1
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 | 831 | 43.9 | 18.9:1 | 91% (756) |
| 2023-24 | 859 | 46.1 | 18.6:1 | 95% (816) |
| 2022-23 | 886 | 55.9 | 15.9:1 | 95% (846) |
| 2020-21 | 1,019 | 53 | 19.2:1 | 95% (967) |
| 2017-18 | 705 | 46.1 | 15.3:1 | 97% (683) |
| 2015-16 | 701 | 43 | 16.3:1 | 88% (616) |
| 2010-11 | 958 | 54 | 17.7:1 | 96% (917) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ellen Ochoa Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (705 to 831); teachers down 5% (46.1 to 43.9).
About Ellen Ochoa Middle School
Families in PASCO, Washington, are served by Ellen Ochoa Middle School, a mid-sized middle school. It had 831 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in Washington enroll about 577 students on average.
Pasco School District is responsible for 28 schools, Ellen Ochoa Middle School included, with 18,913 students in all.
By race and ethnicity, Ellen Ochoa Middle School is 93% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 3% Asian and 3% White. The school's Hispanic share is 37 points above the 55% share among Franklin County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 14%.
There are 43.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Ellen Ochoa Middle School, giving a ratio of 18.9:1. That is in line with the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. A total of 756 students, or 91%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Franklin County report 70%.
Ellen Ochoa Middle School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 18% of Washington public middle schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Ellen Ochoa Middle School is 19.2%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 14.2%.
In the surrounding county, Franklin County, the median household earns about $86,714 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's public schools total 43, with about 21,403 students.
Among nearby public schools, Whittier Elementary is closest at about 0.4 miles. Ellen Ochoa Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 14.2% average proficiency ranks 5th among 6 nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put Ellen Ochoa Middle School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment fell by 18% across 4 years, from 1,019 in 2020-21 to 831 in 2024-25.
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,902
Census ACS
Median income
$86,714
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
21,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pasco School District
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Three Rivers ElementaryElementary · 657 students
Other schools in PASCO
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Three Rivers ElementaryElementary · 657 students
Other Ellen Ochoa Middle schools
One other US public school is named Ellen Ochoa Middle. Ellen Ochoa Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Ellen Ochoa MiddleHyattsville, MD · 1,086 students
Nearby schools
- Whittier Elementary0.4 mi · 378
- Marie Curie STEM Elementary0.5 mi · 376
- Virgie Robinson Elementary0.8 mi · 473
- Pasco Early Learning Center1.3 mi · 318
- Captain Gray STEM Elementary1.5 mi · 408
- Pasco Senior High School1.5 mi · 2,590
Frequently asked questions
About Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ellen Ochoa Middle School?
Ellen Ochoa Middle School enrolls approximately 831 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Ellen Ochoa Middle School serve?
Ellen Ochoa Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Ellen Ochoa Middle School have?
Ellen Ochoa Middle School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Ellen Ochoa Middle School?
Student demographics at Ellen Ochoa Middle School are roughly 3% White, 93% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Ellen Ochoa Middle School in?
Ellen Ochoa Middle School is part of Pasco School District.
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