Fairview Middle School

Fairview Middle School, a moderately sized middle-grades school in BREMERTON, Washington, part of Central Kitsap School District, serves 620 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Central Kitsap School District runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 11,100 students. Fairview Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Fairview Middle School shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 21% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kitsap County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fairview Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 37.3%, a residual of -9.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kitsap County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $104,158 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kitsap County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), of which Fairview Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cottonwood Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fairview Middle School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 620 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 16% to 21% over that span.

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