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Enrollment
808
Middle
DISTRICT 739 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375000573
Issaquah Middle School
600 2ND AVE SE, ISSAQUAH, WA 98027 · (425) 837-6800 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL808 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Washington public middle schools
- A-Test 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.
- 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
234 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 | 287 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 255 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 266 | 33% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
65.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.0pp since 2014
Math
59.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.2% | 59.1% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 56.5% |
| 2022-23 | 68.6% | 57.3% |
| 2021-22 | 63.5% | 55.8% |
| 2018-19 | 76.7% | 71.1% |
| 2017-18 | 77.2% | 72.7% |
| 2016-17 | 75.6% | 74.0% |
| 2015-16 | 81.6% | 76.9% |
| 2014-15 | 78.2% | 73.2% |
% 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
60.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Issaquah Middle School
Issaquah Middle School's state test result (60.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issaquah Middle School this school | 808 | 29.0% | 60.7% |
| Shahala Middle School Vancouver | 732 | 31.4% | N/A |
| Kenmore Middle School Kenmore | 733 | 26.5% | 56.9% |
| Harbour Pointe Middle School Mukilteo | 803 | 35.2% | 55.8% |
| Brier Terrace Middle School BRIER | 649 | 33.1% | 57.9% |
| Lake Stevens Middle School Lake Stevens | 709 | 32.7% | 52.9% |
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 Issaquah Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.7% | #48 of 294 | #35 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #42 of 357 ▲ 5 | #31 of 76 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #65 of 357 ▼ 4 | #35 of 76 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #135 of 290 | #36 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 808 | #70 of 377 | #30 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #186 of 340 | #32 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.7% | #82 of 340 | #37 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.0% | #303 of 359 | #42 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.2% | #39 of 192 | #9 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
808
-161 (-17%) vs 2020
+40% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 19.8:1
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 | 808 | 41.4 | 19.5:1 | 29% (234) |
| 2023-24 | 768 | 40 | 19.2:1 | 28% (215) |
| 2022-23 | 775 | 37.2 | 20.8:1 | 24% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 969 | 49 | 19.8:1 | 15% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 1,013 | 47 | 21.6:1 | 13% (128) |
| 2015-16 | 766 | 36 | 21.3:1 | 14% (109) |
| 2010-11 | 729 | 32 | 22.8:1 | 10% (76) |
| 2000-01 | 789 | 35 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 29 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Issaquah Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (1,013 to 808); teachers down 12% (47 to 41.4).
About Issaquah Middle School
ISSAQUAH, Washington, is home to Issaquah Middle School, a mid-sized middle-grades school. It had 808 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 577 students for middle schools in Washington.
Issaquah Middle School is among 30 schools run by Issaquah School District, which serves 19,098 students.
The largest group at Issaquah Middle School is White students, at 47%. The remaining students are 19% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 6% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Issaquah Middle School scores 70%.
A staff of 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 19.5:1. The 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington is close to this figure. By family income, 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Among Washington public middle schools, Issaquah Middle School outscored 82%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
In Washington, Issaquah Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 60.7% actual against a predicted 60.8%.
In King County, home to about 2,287,171 people, median household income comes to about $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. King County's 544 public schools enroll about 278,492 students and include Issaquah Middle School.
The closest school to Issaquah Middle School is Issaquah High School, located about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Issaquah Middle School is behind the 67.6% nearby average, ranking 6th of 7.
The school's federal locale classification is Rural: Fringe.
A 17% decline took enrollment from 969 in 2020-21 to 808 in 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about Issaquah Middle School, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Maywood Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Beaver Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 699 students
Other schools in ISSAQUAH
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Beaver Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 699 students
- Issaquah Valley ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- Cougar Mountain Middle SchoolMiddle · 616 students
- Pacific Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 605 students
- Clark ElementaryElementary · 586 students
Nearby schools
- Issaquah High School0.1 mi · 2,419
- Gibson Ek High School0.3 mi · 198
- Clark Elementary0.3 mi · 586
- Issaquah Preschool Academy1.1 mi · 42
- Holly Street Early Learning Center1.1 mi · 89
- Issaquah Valley Elementary1.1 mi · 646
Frequently asked questions
About Issaquah Middle SchoolHow many students attend Issaquah Middle School?
Issaquah Middle School enrolls approximately 808 students in grades 06-08.
Is Issaquah Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Issaquah Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Issaquah Middle School?
Approximately 19.5:1 students per teacher at Issaquah Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Issaquah Middle School?
Student demographics at Issaquah Middle School are roughly 47% White, 15% Hispanic, 6% Black, 19% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Issaquah Middle School public or private?
Issaquah Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Issaquah School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.