Friday Harbor Middle School

Friday Harbor Middle School is a very small middle-grades school in FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington, run under San Juan Island School District. The school works with 157 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 73% below the state mean of about 577.

Across the 6 schools in San Juan Island School District (797 students total), Friday Harbor Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Friday Harbor Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, San Juan County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Friday Harbor Middle School records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Friday Harbor Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the broader community, San Juan County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,800 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, San Juan County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,817 students), of which Friday Harbor Middle School is one.

Griffin Bay School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Friday Harbor Middle School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

Friday Harbor Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 202 students in 2018 compared to 157 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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