John Sedgwick Middle School

John Sedgwick Middle School is a moderately sized intermediate school in PORT ORCHARD, Washington, one of the schools within South Kitsap School District. The school enrolls 731 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so John Sedgwick Middle School sits 27% larger than that benchmark.

South Kitsap School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,326 students. John Sedgwick Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, John Sedgwick Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 13% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at John Sedgwick Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, John Sedgwick Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kitsap County put the typical household earns roughly $104,158 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Kitsap County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,233 students), John Sedgwick Middle School is one campus in the mix.

South Colby Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, John Sedgwick Middle School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 702 students in 2018 compared to 731 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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