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What's the most underrated thing about Hudtloff Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
555
Middle
DISTRICT 662 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLOVER PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530141000257
Hudtloff Middle School
8102 Phillips Road SW, Lakewood, WA 98498 · (253) 583-5400 · Pierce County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL555 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of Washington public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
15.0:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
422 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 178 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 163 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 214 | 39% |
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
21.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -32.3pp since 2014
Math
12.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -40.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 32 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 40 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.7% | 12.2% |
| 2023-24 | 23.2% | 12.6% |
| 2022-23 | 31.1% | 15.9% |
| 2021-22 | 28.1% | 13.8% |
| 2018-19 | 51.1% | 37.5% |
| 2017-18 | 50.4% | 43.3% |
| 2016-17 | 57.2% | 50.4% |
| 2015-16 | 51.9% | 50.8% |
| 2014-15 | 54.0% | 52.5% |
% 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
18.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 29% 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 Hudtloff Middle School
Hudtloff Middle School's state test result (18.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudtloff Middle School this school | 555 | 76.0% | 18.2% |
| Lochburn Middle School Lakewood | 497 | 82.7% | 11.3% |
| Lakota Middle School FEDERAL WAY | 645 | 71.2% | 31.7% |
| Gray Middle School Tacoma | 510 | 73.7% | 19.1% |
| Angelo Giaudrone Middle School Tacoma | 449 | 71.9% | 21.1% |
| First Creek Middle School Tacoma | 584 | 78.1% | 20.2% |
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 Hudtloff Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.2% | #278 of 294 | #43 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.2% | #339 of 357 ▼ 6 | #43 of 45 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #344 of 357 ▼ 5 | #44 of 45 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #28 of 290 | #2 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 555 | #221 of 377 | #32 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #16 of 340 | #1 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.5% | #54 of 340 | #18 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.0% | #37 of 359 | #3 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #22 of 192 | #3 of 23 |
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
555
-150 (-21%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 18.1:1
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 | 555 | 37 | 15.0:1 | 76% (422) |
| 2023-24 | 586 | 36 | 16.3:1 | 76% (447) |
| 2022-23 | 627 | 34.5 | 18.2:1 | 77% (484) |
| 2020-21 | 705 | 39 | 18.1:1 | 70% (493) |
| 2017-18 | 752 | 38 | 19.8:1 | 69% (517) |
| 2015-16 | 747 | 39 | 19.1:1 | 69% (519) |
| 2010-11 | 637 | 31 | 20.6:1 | 61% (386) |
| 2000-01 | 682 | 33 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 27 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hudtloff Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (752 to 555); teachers down 3% (38 to 37).
About Hudtloff Middle School
Hudtloff Middle School serves students in Lakewood, Washington, as a medium-sized middle-grades school. The school's 555 students are in grades 6 through 8.
Clover Park School District counts 32 schools and 12,345 students, including Hudtloff Middle School.
Hudtloff Middle School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 42%. Other reported shares: 20% White, 17% Black, 13% multiracial, and 5% Pacific Islander. That compares with about 13% Hispanic among all Pierce County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 74% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.0:1. That is lower than the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 76%. The 50% average for public schools in Pierce County is 26 points lower.
Hudtloff Middle School is graded F by allk12, scoring above 2% of Washington public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Washington with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 29.2%. Hudtloff Middle School posts 18.2%, 11.0 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
According to the American Community Survey, in Pierce County, the median household income is $99,564, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 287 public schools in Pierce County, enrolling about 138,462 students in all.
The shortest distance from Hudtloff Middle School to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to Custer Elementary School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 6 closest schools with test data, this one included, Hudtloff Middle School ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.
2024-25 enrollment was 555, a 21% decrease from 705 in 2020-21. The school's ratio fell from 18.1:1 to 15.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Hudtloff Middle School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clover Park School District
- Clover Park High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Lakes High SchoolHigh · 1,158 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 934 students
- General William H. Harrison Preparatory SchoolHigh · 738 students
- Rainier Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
Other schools in Lakewood
- Clover Park High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Lakes High SchoolHigh · 1,158 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolMiddle · 934 students
- General William H. Harrison Preparatory SchoolHigh · 738 students
- Four Heroes ElementaryElementary · 541 students
- Lakeview Hope AcademyElementary · 540 students
Nearby schools
- Custer Elementary School0.2 mi · 358
- Oakbrook Elementary School0.4 mi · 285
- Oakridge Group Home0.7 mi · 3
- Dower Elementary School0.8 mi · 337
- Firwood0.9 mi · 45
- Transition Day Students0.9 mi · 8
Frequently asked questions
About Hudtloff Middle SchoolHow large is Hudtloff Middle School?
Hudtloff Middle School enrolls approximately 555 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Hudtloff Middle School serve?
Hudtloff Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Hudtloff Middle School?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Hudtloff Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hudtloff Middle School?
At Hudtloff Middle School, the student body is approximately 20% White, 42% Hispanic, 17% Black, 3% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees Hudtloff Middle School?
Hudtloff Middle School is overseen by Clover Park School District in Pierce County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.