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What's the biggest difference between Heatherwood Middle School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
1,031
Middle
DISTRICT 922 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530267002253
Heatherwood Middle School
1419 Trillium Blvd. SE, Mill Creek, WA 98012 · (425) 385-6300 · Snohomish County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,031 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of Washington public middle schools
- ATest 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.
- C+Three-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
23.0:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.9:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
328 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 | 342 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 366 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 323 | 31% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
72.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.2pp since 2014
Math
62.4%
WA avg 51.2% . +1.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.6% | 62.4% |
| 2023-24 | 74.1% | 60.7% |
| 2022-23 | 74.1% | 56.5% |
| 2021-22 | 77.2% | 55.5% |
| 2018-19 | 82.6% | 64.8% |
| 2017-18 | 81.6% | 65.6% |
| 2016-17 | 80.1% | 65.0% |
| 2015-16 | 78.7% | 61.3% |
| 2014-15 | 76.8% | 61.2% |
% 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
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Heatherwood Middle School
Heatherwood Middle School's state test result (66.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heatherwood Middle School this school | 1,031 | 31.8% | 66.5% |
| Issaquah Middle School ISSAQUAH | 808 | 29.0% | 60.7% |
| Harbour Pointe Middle School Mukilteo | 803 | 35.2% | 55.8% |
| Northwood Middle School Renton | 911 | 34.7% | 48.2% |
| Kamiakin Middle School Kirkland | 573 | 28.4% | 61.6% |
| Chinook Middle School Bellevue | 752 | 24.1% | 62.8% |
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 Heatherwood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #31 of 294 | #3 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #35 of 357 no change | #3 of 32 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #32 of 357 ▼ 7 | #3 of 32 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #168 of 290 | #21 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,031 | #10 of 377 | #3 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.0:1 | #331 of 340 | #30 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #69 of 340 | #9 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.8% | #292 of 359 | #27 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.5% | #103 of 130 | #13 of 17 |
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
1,031
+40 (+4%) vs 2020
+33% since 1990-91, when it was 776
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
was 20.6:1
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 | 1,031 | 44.8 | 23.0:1 | 32% (328) |
| 2023-24 | 1,010 | 45 | 22.4:1 | 36% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 983 | 44.3 | 22.2:1 | 30% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 991 | 48 | 20.6:1 | 29% (283) |
| 2017-18 | 1,006 | 45.3 | 22.2:1 | 21% (207) |
| 2015-16 | 956 | 41 | 23.3:1 | 30% (288) |
| 2010-11 | 944 | 41 | 23.0:1 | 23% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 936 | 41 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 776 | 35 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Heatherwood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (1,006 to 1,031); teachers down 1% (45.3 to 44.8).
About Heatherwood Middle School
Mill Creek, Washington, is home to Heatherwood Middle School, a large middle school. The student body numbers 1,031 students, from grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Washington) has about 577 students.
Federal data list 32 schools in Everett School District, with 20,489 students enrolled.
Heatherwood Middle School's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 41%. Other students are 28% Asian, 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Black. By comparison, Snohomish County residents are about 64% White. Heatherwood Middle School has a diversity index of 71%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its teaching staff equals 44.8 full-time positions, a ratio of 23.0:1. For comparison, middle schools in Washington average 18.9:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 32%. That rate is below the 41% average among public schools in Snohomish County.
Heatherwood Middle School is graded A by allk12, scoring above 91% of Washington public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 58.9% for a school in Washington with Heatherwood Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Heatherwood Middle School posts 66.5%.
Within Snohomish County, median household income is about $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Snohomish County number 227 and enroll about 118,688.
The closest public school to Heatherwood Middle School is Henry M. Jackson High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Heatherwood Middle School ranks 4th on proficiency.
Heatherwood Middle School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 1,031, 4% above the 991 of 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 23.0:1, from 20.6:1.
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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 Everett School District
- Henry M. Jackson High SchoolHigh · 2,148 students
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
Other schools in Mill Creek
- Henry M. Jackson High SchoolHigh · 2,148 students
- Mill Creek ElementaryElementary · 694 students
Nearby schools
- Henry M. Jackson High School0.1 mi · 2,148
- Silver Lake Elementary0.7 mi · 550
- Mill Creek Elementary1.2 mi · 694
- Penny Creek Elementary1.6 mi · 791
- Mariner High School1.7 mi · 2,106
- Discovery Elementary1.8 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Heatherwood Middle SchoolHow many students attend Heatherwood Middle School?
Heatherwood Middle School enrolls approximately 1,031 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Heatherwood Middle School serve?
Heatherwood Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Heatherwood Middle School have?
Heatherwood Middle School employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Heatherwood Middle School?
Student demographics at Heatherwood Middle School are roughly 41% White, 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 28% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Heatherwood Middle School?
Heatherwood Middle School is overseen by Everett School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.