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Enrollment
2,148
High
DISTRICT 831 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530267001726
Henry M. Jackson High School
1508 136th St. SE, Mill Creek, WA 98012 · (425) 385-7000 · Snohomish County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL2,148 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of Washington public high 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.
- B+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
23.9:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
548 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 562 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 545 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 541 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 500 | 23% |
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
81.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +41.4pp since 2014
Math
55.7%
WA avg 51.2% . +27.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 41 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 28 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.0% | 55.7% |
| 2023-24 | 85.2% | 54.8% |
| 2022-23 | 81.7% | 51.1% |
| 2021-22 | 82.2% | 50.9% |
| 2018-19 | 85.7% | 55.0% |
| 2017-18 | 84.0% | 56.1% |
| 2016-17 | 21.5% | 17.4% |
| 2015-16 | 33.7% | 44.0% |
| 2014-15 | 39.6% | 28.1% |
% 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
69.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Henry M. Jackson High School
Henry M. Jackson High School's state test result (69.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry M. Jackson High School this school | 2,148 | 25.5% | 69.5% |
| Liberty Sr High School RENTON | 1,495 | 18.3% | 64.3% |
| Issaquah High School ISSAQUAH | 2,419 | 16.5% | 54.1% |
| Bellevue High School Bellevue | 1,683 | 18.6% | 64.1% |
| Redmond High School Redmond | 2,304 | 14.6% | 59.1% |
| Hazen Senior High School Renton | 1,796 | 38.2% | 47.1% |
Matched among Washington high 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 Henry M. Jackson High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #10 of 271 | #2 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #24 of 321 no change | #3 of 25 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #26 of 327 ▼ 14 | #4 of 26 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.8pp | #88 of 259 | #10 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,148 | #16 of 570 | #3 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.9:1 | #277 of 311 | #16 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.3% | #53 of 316 | #5 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.5% | #341 of 386 | #30 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #149 of 164 | #12 of 12 |
Ranked against other public high 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
2,148
-115 (-5%) vs 2020
+32% since 2000-01, when it was 1,625
Student : Teacher
23.9:1
was 23.1:1
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 | 2,148 | 89.9 | 23.9:1 | 26% (548) |
| 2023-24 | 2,157 | 92.4 | 23.4:1 | 27% (581) |
| 2022-23 | 2,155 | 92.8 | 23.2:1 | 22% (473) |
| 2020-21 | 2,263 | 98 | 23.1:1 | 20% (444) |
| 2017-18 | 2,193 | 94.1 | 23.3:1 | 14% (305) |
| 2015-16 | 2,200 | 92 | 23.9:1 | 19% (421) |
| 2010-11 | 1,908 | 78 | 24.5:1 | 18% (339) |
| 2000-01 | 1,625 | 66 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Henry M. Jackson High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (2,193 to 2,148); teachers down 4% (94.1 to 89.9).
About Henry M. Jackson High School
Henry M. Jackson High School is a high-enrollment high school in Everett School District, located in Mill Creek, Washington. The school has 2,148 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 573 students for high schools in Washington.
Everett School District has 20,489 students in 32 schools, and Henry M. Jackson High School is one of those schools.
The largest group at Henry M. Jackson High School is White students, at 39%. Smaller groups are 32% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Black. For comparison, the population of Snohomish County is roughly 64% White. The diversity index for Henry M. Jackson High School is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Henry M. Jackson High School comes to 89.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 23.9:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Washington is 21.6:1. Henry M. Jackson High School counts 26% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Snohomish County averages 41%, higher than here.
Among Washington public high schools, Henry M. Jackson High School outscored 97%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Henry M. Jackson High School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 69.5%, compared with a predicted 63.1%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Snohomish County show that the median household earns about $111,246 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Snohomish County, 227 public schools serve about 118,688 students.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Heatherwood Middle School, is the closest to Henry M. Jackson High School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Henry M. Jackson High School. Its average proficiency rate of 69.5% is above the 54.3% average for nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Henry M. Jackson High School is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment decreased 5% over 4 years, reaching 2,148 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 Everett School District
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Heatherwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,031 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 890 students
Other schools in Mill Creek
- Heatherwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,031 students
- Mill Creek ElementaryElementary · 694 students
Nearby schools
- Heatherwood Middle School0.1 mi · 1,031
- Silver Lake Elementary0.6 mi · 550
- Mill Creek Elementary1.2 mi · 694
- Penny Creek Elementary1.5 mi · 791
- Mariner High School1.6 mi · 2,106
- Discovery Elementary1.7 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Henry M. Jackson High SchoolHow many students attend Henry M. Jackson High School?
Henry M. Jackson High School enrolls approximately 2,148 students in grades 09-12.
Is Henry M. Jackson High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Henry M. Jackson High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Henry M. Jackson High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Henry M. Jackson High School is approximately 23.9:1 (90 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Henry M. Jackson High School?
Henry M. Jackson High School reports a student body of 39% White, 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 32% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Henry M. Jackson High School?
Henry M. Jackson High 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.