Inchelium Middle School
School pathway
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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 Inchelium Middle School
Located at 1 Hornet Avenue, in Inchelium, Washington, Inchelium Middle School is a tiny junior high that enrolls 47 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Inchelium School District. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 92% below typical.
Inchelium School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 188 students; Inchelium Middle School is among them.
In terms of who attends, Inchelium Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (85%). The remainder is composed of 9% multiracial, 6% White.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Inchelium Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Ferry County's rate of about 56%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Inchelium Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.5%; this one delivers 25.7%.
In the area at large, census data for Ferry County shows median household income runs about $55,614, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Inchelium Middle School is one of 11 public schools in Ferry County (combined enrollment of about 1,102 students).
Inchelium High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Inchelium Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Inchelium Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.0%.
Inchelium Middle School operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Inchelium Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 49 (now 47).
On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Ferry County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- Inchelium Elementary SchoolElementary · 79 students
- Inchelium High SchoolHigh · 62 students
- Inchelium Elementary SchoolElementary · 79 students
- Inchelium High SchoolHigh · 62 students
- Inchelium High School0.0 mi · 62
- Inchelium Elementary School0.0 mi · 79
- Evergreen School2.8 mi · 39
- Summit Valley School10.2 mi · 108
- Columbia High And Elementary12.6 mi · 121
- Colville Junior High School21.2 mi · 401