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Enrollment
983
Middle
DISTRICT 754 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1·NCES 530771001180
Hamilton International Middle School
1610 N 41 ST, SEATTLE, WA 98103 · (206) 252-5810 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL983 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of Washington public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
23.6:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
118 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 340 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 326 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 317 | 32% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
77.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +8.6pp since 2014
Math
74.3%
WA avg 51.2% . +0.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.3% | 74.3% |
| 2023-24 | 78.6% | 71.2% |
| 2022-23 | 80.1% | 68.5% |
| 2021-22 | 76.8% | 69.1% |
| 2018-19 | 84.1% | 76.7% |
| 2017-18 | 84.2% | 80.0% |
| 2016-17 | 82.1% | 81.9% |
| 2015-16 | 76.6% | 78.3% |
| 2014-15 | 68.7% | 73.4% |
% 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
74.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Hamilton International Middle School
Hamilton International Middle School's state test result (74.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton International Middle School this school | 983 | 12.0% | 74.8% |
| Eckstein Middle School SEATTLE | 1,024 | 15.4% | 73.3% |
| Madison Middle School SEATTLE | 1,017 | 16.7% | 68.7% |
| Summit Trail Middle School Ravensdale | 1,097 | 14.9% | 66.7% |
| Skyridge Middle School Camas | 760 | 16.4% | N/A |
| Timbercrest Middle School Woodinville | 665 | 9.6% | 73.7% |
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 Hamilton International Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #11 of 294 | #9 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.3% | #12 of 357 ▼ 2 | #11 of 76 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.3% | #21 of 357 ▼ 11 | #17 of 76 ▼ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #130 of 290 | #34 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 983 | #17 of 377 | #10 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.6:1 | #336 of 340 | #76 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #131 of 340 | #53 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.0% | #349 of 359 | #67 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.3% | #187 of 192 | #37 of 37 |
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
983
-54 (-5%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 766
Student : Teacher
23.6:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 983 | 41.7 | 23.6:1 | 12% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 897 | 39.9 | 22.5:1 | 11% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 928 | 41.6 | 22.3:1 | 12% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 1,037 | 51 | 20.3:1 | 8% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 986 | 44.6 | 22.1:1 | 9% (87) |
| 2015-16 | 1,089 | 53 | 20.6:1 | 7% (79) |
| 2010-11 | 854 | 43 | 19.9:1 | 26% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 718 | 37 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 766 | 36 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hamilton International Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (986 to 983); teachers down 6% (44.6 to 41.7).
About Hamilton International Middle School
Hamilton International Middle School is a large middle school in SEATTLE, Washington, one of the schools in Seattle School District No. 1. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 983 students. By comparison, middle schools in Washington enroll about 577 students on average.
Seattle School District No. 1 enrolls 50,773 students, and its 107 schools include Hamilton International Middle School.
At Hamilton International Middle School, 54% of students are White. It is also 20% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 3% Black. Census estimates put King County at about 55% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Hamilton International Middle School is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 41.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 23.6:1. Statewide, middle schools in Washington average 18.9:1. Hamilton International Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 12%. Across public schools in King County, the average is 38%.
Hamilton International Middle School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 92% of Washington public middle schools.
Hamilton International Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 74.8% and a predicted 72.2%.
American Community Survey estimates for King County show that median household income comes to about $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. King County counts 544 public schools with about 278,492 students.
About 0.2 miles separate Hamilton International Middle School from the closest public school, Lincoln High School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Hamilton International Middle School ranks 6th of 7 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 983, from 1,037 in 2020-21. The school's ratio increased from 20.3:1 to 23.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Seattle School District No. 1
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Other schools in SEATTLE
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln High School0.2 mi · 1,770
- B F Day Elementary School0.5 mi · 394
- John Stanford International School0.7 mi · 422
- McDonald International School0.9 mi · 443
- Tops K-8 School1.2 mi · 447
- Cascade Parent Partnership Program1.2 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About Hamilton International Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hamilton International Middle School?
Hamilton International Middle School enrolls approximately 983 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Hamilton International Middle School serve?
Hamilton International Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hamilton International Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hamilton International Middle School is approximately 23.6:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Hamilton International Middle School?
Student demographics at Hamilton International Middle School are roughly 54% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Who oversees Hamilton International Middle School?
Hamilton International Middle School is overseen by Seattle School District No. 1 in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.