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What's the most underrated thing about Kirkland Middle School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
746
Middle
DISTRICT 589 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530423000672
Kirkland Middle School
430 18th AVE, Kirkland, WA 98033 · (425) 936-2420 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL746 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Washington public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
20.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
92 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 248 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 286 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 212 | 28% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
75.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -9.0pp since 2014
Math
66.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 9 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 | 75.4% | 66.1% |
| 2023-24 | 76.0% | 66.2% |
| 2022-23 | 79.0% | 71.2% |
| 2021-22 | 78.2% | 68.2% |
| 2018-19 | 82.9% | 81.9% |
| 2017-18 | 82.6% | 79.6% |
| 2016-17 | 81.4% | 80.1% |
| 2015-16 | 83.0% | 80.3% |
| 2014-15 | 84.4% | 80.7% |
% 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
70.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Kirkland Middle School
Kirkland Middle School's state test result (70.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkland Middle School this school | 746 | 12.3% | 70.3% |
| Skyridge Middle School Camas | 760 | 16.4% | N/A |
| Maywood Middle School RENTON | 826 | 18.3% | 68.2% |
| Canyon Park Middle School Bothell | 907 | 19.2% | 61.6% |
| Summit Trail Middle School Ravensdale | 1,097 | 14.9% | 66.7% |
| Chief Kanim Middle School FALL CITY | 520 | 15.0% | 67.5% |
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 Kirkland Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #23 of 294 | #19 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #29 of 357 ▼ 8 | #22 of 76 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.4% | #23 of 357 ▼ 5 | #18 of 76 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.5pp | #46 of 290 | #16 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 746 | #105 of 377 | #39 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #219 of 340 | #44 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.5% | #120 of 340 | #50 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.3% | #347 of 359 | #66 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.7% | #22 of 130 | #6 of 33 |
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
746
+198 (+36%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 766
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 19.6:1
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 | 746 | 37.1 | 20.1:1 | 12% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 666 | 32.6 | 20.4:1 | 11% (73) |
| 2022-23 | 575 | 29.1 | 19.8:1 | 13% (77) |
| 2020-21 | 548 | 28 | 19.6:1 | 11% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 613 | 30.6 | 20.0:1 | 11% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 26 | 21.9:1 | 12% (70) |
| 2010-11 | 547 | 29 | 18.9:1 | 14% (77) |
| 2000-01 | 496 | 23 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 766 | 36 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kirkland Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (613 to 746); teachers up 21% (30.6 to 37.1).
About Kirkland Middle School
Kirkland Middle School is a public middle-grades school in Kirkland, Washington. The school serves 746 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. The average among middle schools in Washington is roughly 577 students; this school is 29% larger than that.
Lake Washington School District counts 30,986 students in its 55 schools, and Kirkland Middle School is one of them.
Roughly 52% of students at Kirkland Middle School are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 21% Asian, 12% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, and 3% Black. That is close to the 55% White share among all King County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 37.1 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 20.1:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. The school's lunch program data list 12% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 38% average among public schools in King County.
Kirkland Middle School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 76% of Washington public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, Kirkland Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 70.3%; the prediction is 71.9%.
Among King County residents, the median household income is $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Kirkland Middle School, King County has 543 other public schools.
The closest other public school is Peter Kirk Elementary, about 0.4 miles away. Kirkland Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Kirkland Middle School at 5th of 8.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment grew 36% from its 2020-21 level of 548.
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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 Lake Washington School District
- Eastlake High SchoolHigh · 2,481 students
- Redmond High SchoolHigh · 2,304 students
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Inglewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,229 students
- Redmond Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Kirkland
- Lake Washington High SchoolHigh · 2,081 students
- Juanita High SchoolHigh · 1,778 students
- Finn Hill Middle SchoolMiddle · 664 students
- Lakeview ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Peter Kirk ElementaryElementary · 592 students
- Kamiakin Middle SchoolMiddle · 573 students
Nearby schools
- Peter Kirk Elementary0.4 mi · 592
- Alexander Graham Bell Elementary0.9 mi · 503
- Mark Twain Elementary1.5 mi · 550
- Lake Washington High School1.5 mi · 2,081
- Lakeview Elementary1.6 mi · 602
- Juanita High School1.7 mi · 1,778
Frequently asked questions
About Kirkland Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Kirkland Middle School?
Kirkland Middle School enrolls approximately 746 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Kirkland Middle School serve?
Kirkland Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Kirkland Middle School have?
Kirkland Middle School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Kirkland Middle School?
Student demographics at Kirkland Middle School are roughly 52% White, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 21% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Kirkland Middle School?
Kirkland Middle School is overseen by Lake Washington School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.