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Enrollment
620
Middle
DISTRICT 656 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530108000183
Fairview Middle School
8107 CENTRAL VALLEY RD NW, BREMERTON, WA 98310 · (360) 662-2600 · Kitsap County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL620 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Washington public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
20.2:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.2:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
313 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 206 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 206 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 208 | 34% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
44.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -14.7pp since 2014
Math
31.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -23.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 24 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.9% | 31.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.9% | 26.2% |
| 2022-23 | 42.1% | 25.9% |
| 2021-22 | 43.4% | 26.1% |
| 2018-19 | 56.5% | 46.1% |
| 2017-18 | 59.3% | 51.1% |
| 2016-17 | 63.2% | 51.8% |
| 2015-16 | 64.8% | 45.1% |
| 2014-15 | 59.5% | 54.7% |
% 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
37.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Fairview Middle School
Fairview Middle School's state test result (37.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview Middle School this school | 620 | 50.5% | 37.3% |
| Jason Lee Middle School VANCOUVER | 568 | 48.4% | N/A |
| Cedarcrest School Marysville | 704 | 49.9% | 39.0% |
| Ferrucci Jr High Puyallup | 815 | 50.3% | 44.6% |
| Frontier Middle School Graham | 620 | 49.0% | 39.7% |
| Salish Middle School Lacey | 745 | 48.3% | 35.4% |
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 Fairview Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.3% | #170 of 294 | #9 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #199 of 357 ▲ 36 | #9 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #200 of 357 ▼ 16 | #8 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.3pp | #115 of 290 | #5 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 620 | #185 of 377 | #7 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #228 of 340 | #9 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.8% | #81 of 340 | #1 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.5% | #178 of 359 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #134 of 192 | #7 of 9 |
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
620
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 916
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 19.1:1
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 | 620 | 30.7 | 20.2:1 | 50% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 588 | 30.9 | 19.0:1 | 56% (329) |
| 2022-23 | 609 | 33.4 | 18.2:1 | 55% (335) |
| 2020-21 | 610 | 32 | 19.1:1 | 35% (211) |
| 2017-18 | 665 | 34.3 | 19.4:1 | 39% (260) |
| 2015-16 | 482 | 22 | 21.9:1 | 48% (232) |
| 2010-11 | 670 | 37 | 18.1:1 | 28% (190) |
| 2000-01 | 905 | 40 | 22.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 916 | 43 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fairview Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (665 to 620); teachers down 11% (34.3 to 30.7).
About Fairview Middle School
In BREMERTON, Washington, Fairview Middle School is a mid-sized middle school. There are 620 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8.
In Central Kitsap School District, 19 schools enroll a combined 11,100 students.
The student body at Fairview Middle School has no majority group. White students lead at 45%. Enrollment also includes 21% Hispanic, 21% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 4% Black. The school's White share is 30 points below the 75% share among Kitsap County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
Based on 30.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, Fairview Middle School has a ratio of 20.2:1. Across middle schools in Washington, the average ratio is 18.9:1. Income data for the school show 50% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Kitsap County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
Fairview Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 37% of Washington public middle schools.
The model predicts 46.3% for a school in Washington with Fairview Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Fairview Middle School posts 37.3%.
In Kitsap County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $104,158 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Fairview Middle School, Kitsap County has 77 public schools.
Cottonwood Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Fairview Middle School is 8th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Fairview Middle School falls in the Suburb: Mid-size locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (610) and 2024-25 (620). The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 19.1:1 in 2020-21 to 20.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Central Kitsap School District
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Barker Creek Community SchoolCombined · 551 students
Other schools in BREMERTON
- Bremerton High SchoolHigh · 1,263 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- Barker Creek Community SchoolCombined · 551 students
- Catalyst Public SchoolsCombined · 504 students
- Armin Jahr ElementaryElementary · 495 students
Other Fairview Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Fairview Middle. Fairview Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 8.
- FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOLTALLAHASSEE, FL · 735 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolFairview, PA · 633 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolFairview, TN · 540 students
- Fairview MiddleGonzales, CA · 426 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolCullman, AL · 291 students
Nearby schools
- Cottonwood Elementary School0.5 mi · 362
- Woodlands Elementary0.5 mi · 379
- Olympic High School1.0 mi · 1,162
- Barker Creek Community School1.4 mi · 551
- Silver Ridge Elementary1.6 mi · 430
- Ridgetop Middle School1.7 mi · 784
Frequently asked questions
About Fairview Middle SchoolHow many students attend Fairview Middle School?
Fairview Middle School enrolls approximately 620 students in grades 06-08.
Is Fairview Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fairview Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Fairview Middle School have?
Fairview Middle School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Fairview Middle School?
Student demographics at Fairview Middle School are roughly 45% White, 21% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 21% Two or more.
Who oversees Fairview Middle School?
Fairview Middle School is overseen by Central Kitsap School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.