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Alumni: what's one memory from Illahee Middle School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
655
Middle
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000437
Illahee Middle School
36001 1st AVE S, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 · (253) 945-4600 · King County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL655 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 17% 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.
- B-Beats 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
17.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
500 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 224 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 222 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 209 | 32% |
Student demographics
81%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
31.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -15.1pp since 2014
Math
15.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 15 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.1% | 15.4% |
| 2023-24 | 30.4% | 18.0% |
| 2022-23 | 27.1% | 16.3% |
| 2021-22 | 35.0% | 18.6% |
| 2018-19 | 46.0% | 32.1% |
| 2017-18 | 47.3% | 31.2% |
| 2016-17 | 47.5% | 28.6% |
| 2015-16 | 51.3% | 33.3% |
| 2014-15 | 46.2% | 30.1% |
% 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
23.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Illahee Middle School
Illahee Middle School's state test result (23.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illahee Middle School this school | 655 | 76.3% | 23.8% |
| Gray Middle School Tacoma | 510 | 73.7% | 19.1% |
| Chinook Middle School SeaTac | 620 | 72.9% | 22.9% |
| First Creek Middle School Tacoma | 584 | 78.1% | 20.2% |
| Lakota Middle School FEDERAL WAY | 645 | 71.2% | 31.7% |
| Evergreen Middle School KENT | 810 | 79.5% | 18.1% |
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 Illahee Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.8% | #253 of 294 | #67 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.4% | #325 of 357 ▼ 23 | #72 of 76 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #301 of 357 ▲ 2 | #68 of 76 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.6pp | #33 of 290 | #10 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 655 | #163 of 377 | #51 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #71 of 340 | #9 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 80.5% | #2 of 340 | #1 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.3% | #35 of 359 | #3 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #42 of 192 | #10 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
655
-165 (-20%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 956
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.8:1
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 | 655 | 37.3 | 17.6:1 | 76% (500) |
| 2023-24 | 622 | 38.1 | 16.3:1 | 77% (482) |
| 2022-23 | 671 | 40 | 16.8:1 | 77% (515) |
| 2020-21 | 820 | 46 | 17.8:1 | 66% (541) |
| 2017-18 | 808 | 45.6 | 17.7:1 | 56% (449) |
| 2015-16 | 763 | 44 | 17.3:1 | 53% (401) |
| 2010-11 | 835 | 43 | 19.4:1 | 34% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 961 | 44 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 956 | 42 | 22.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Illahee Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (808 to 655); teachers down 18% (45.6 to 37.3).
About Illahee Middle School
Illahee Middle School runs as a mid-sized middle school in FEDERAL WAY, Washington. There are 655 students enrolled, covering grades 5 through 8.
District-wide, Federal Way School District has 43 schools and 22,250 students.
No group is above 50% at Illahee Middle School; the largest is Hispanic, at 29%. Other reported shares: 22% Black, 16% White, 11% multiracial, and 10% Asian. King County's residents are about 11% Hispanic, 18 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 81%.
Illahee Middle School has 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1. At Illahee Middle School, 76% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 38 points above the 38% average for public schools in King County.
On the allk12 Grade, Illahee Middle School lands at C-, ahead of 17% of Washington public middle schools.
Test results at Illahee Middle School are 5.2 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (23.8% actual, 29.0% predicted).
In King County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 544 public schools and about 278,492 students.
Enterprise Elementary School is about 0.7 miles from Illahee Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Illahee Middle School places 7th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Under the NCES locale system, Illahee Middle School is Suburb: Large.
The school's enrollment fell 20% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The discussion board for Illahee Middle School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in FEDERAL WAY
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Lakota Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 598 students
Nearby schools
- Enterprise Elementary School0.7 mi · 450
- Todd Beamer High School1.0 mi · 1,412
- Panther Lake Elementary School1.1 mi · 427
- Federal Way Public Academy1.2 mi · 309
- Sherwood Forest Elementary School1.2 mi · 325
- Technology Access Foundation Academy at Saghalie1.7 mi · 532
Frequently asked questions
About Illahee Middle SchoolHow many students attend Illahee Middle School?
Illahee Middle School enrolls approximately 655 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does Illahee Middle School serve?
Illahee Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Illahee Middle School?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at Illahee Middle School.
How diverse is Illahee Middle School?
Illahee Middle School reports a student body of 16% White, 29% Hispanic, 22% Black, 10% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees Illahee Middle School?
Illahee Middle School is overseen by Federal Way School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.