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Henry M. Jackson High School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Henry M. Jackson High School
Located at 1508 136th St. SE, in Mill Creek, Washington, Henry M. Jackson High School is a sprawling secondary school that teaches 2,148 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Everett School District. That puts it 275% bigger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.
Across the 32 schools in Everett School District (20,489 students total), Henry M. Jackson High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Henry M. Jackson High School shows that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 32% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Henry M. Jackson High School has 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Henry M. Jackson High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at Henry M. Jackson High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Snohomish County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Henry M. Jackson High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of +6.4 points.
Across the wider county, Snohomish County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Henry M. Jackson High School is one.
Heatherwood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Henry M. Jackson High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Henry M. Jackson High School at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 54.3%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 2,193 students in 2018 compared to 2,148 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 55% to 39%.
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