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What tradition at Haller Middle School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
576
Middle
DISTRICT 611 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530024003008
Haller Middle School
600 E. First, Arlington, WA 98223 · (360) 618-6400 · Snohomish County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL576 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
23.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.7:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
213 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 | 203 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 179 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 194 | 34% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
50.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -22.4pp since 2014
Math
28.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -23.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 22 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 | 50.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 25.9% |
| 2022-23 | 52.9% | 25.9% |
| 2021-22 | 55.9% | 28.9% |
| 2018-19 | 69.5% | 46.3% |
| 2017-18 | 69.1% | 49.8% |
| 2016-17 | 71.4% | 54.2% |
| 2015-16 | 75.0% | 54.4% |
| 2014-15 | 72.4% | 51.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Haller Middle School
Haller Middle School's state test result (38.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haller Middle School this school | 576 | 37.0% | 38.1% |
| Lincoln Middle School Pullman | 643 | 37.6% | 60.6% |
| Tumwater Middle School Tumwater | 665 | 35.6% | 50.0% |
| Orting Middle School Orting | 643 | 40.0% | 34.7% |
| Poulsbo Middle School Poulsbo | 713 | 34.5% | 50.8% |
| George Bush Middle School Tumwater | 762 | 39.0% | 49.4% |
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 Haller Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #165 of 294 | #22 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #228 of 357 ▲ 12 | #25 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #153 of 357 ▲ 44 | #17 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.4pp | #35 of 290 | #3 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 576 | #207 of 377 | #24 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.3:1 | #333 of 340 | #31 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #213 of 340 | #26 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.0% | #263 of 359 | #18 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.5% | #78 of 192 | #6 of 13 |
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
576
-26 (-4%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 622
Student : Teacher
23.3:1
was 20.8:1
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 | 576 | 24.8 | 23.3:1 | 37% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 577 | 27 | 21.4:1 | 38% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 589 | 27.1 | 21.7:1 | 38% (226) |
| 2020-21 | 602 | 29 | 20.8:1 | 35% (208) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 30.8 | 21.6:1 | 29% (195) |
| 2015-16 | 667 | 32 | 20.8:1 | 31% (207) |
| 2010-11 | 622 | 29 | 21.4:1 | 11% (66) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Haller Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (666 to 576); teachers down 20% (30.8 to 24.8).
About Haller Middle School
Haller Middle School is a public middle-grades school run by Arlington School District in Arlington, Washington. It had 576 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8.
Arlington School District has 10 schools; together they serve 5,588 students.
Federal enrollment data show Haller Middle School is 64% White. The next largest groups are 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Snohomish County overall, the White share is about 64%. A diversity index of 53% means there is a 53% chance two randomly chosen students at Haller Middle School are from different groups.
There are 24.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 23.3:1. The average for middle schools in Washington, 18.9:1, is lower. Of all students at Haller Middle School, 37% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Haller Middle School is 55.4%. It actually posts 38.1%, which is 17.3 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Washington schools.
The school is in Snohomish County, where the median household earns about $111,246 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Snohomish County, 227 public schools serve about 118,688 students.
Haller Middle School is about 0.3 miles from Presidents Elementary, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 38.1% is below the 46.5% average for nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Mid-size: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 576, compared with 602 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 20.8 in 2020-21 to 23.3 in 2024-25.
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Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Arlington School District
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Eagle Creek ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Post Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Kent Prairie ElementaryElementary · 621 students
- Presidents ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 501 students
Other schools in Arlington
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 834 students
- Eagle Creek ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Post Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Kent Prairie ElementaryElementary · 621 students
- Presidents ElementaryElementary · 578 students
Nearby schools
- Presidents Elementary0.3 mi · 578
- Stillaguamish Valley Learning Center0.4 mi · 181
- Eagle Creek Elementary0.4 mi · 665
- Post Middle School0.6 mi · 645
- Kent Prairie Elementary0.6 mi · 621
- Arlington High School1.8 mi · 1,650
Frequently asked questions
About Haller Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Haller Middle School?
Haller Middle School enrolls approximately 576 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Haller Middle School serve?
Haller Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Haller Middle School?
Approximately 23.3:1 students per teacher at Haller Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Haller Middle School?
Student demographics at Haller Middle School are roughly 64% White, 21% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Haller Middle School?
Haller Middle School is overseen by Arlington School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.