La Venture Middle School

La Venture Middle School is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in Mount Vernon, Washington, one of the schools within Mount Vernon School District, with 663 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Mount Vernon School District runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 6,326 students. La Venture Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, La Venture Middle School reports that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 27% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, La Venture Middle School logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 70% of students at La Venture Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Skagit County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, La Venture Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -1.3 points.

In the area at large, Skagit County reports that median household income runs about $89,263, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Skagit County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,298 students), La Venture Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Open Doors is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around La Venture Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts La Venture Middle School at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 30.0%.

La Venture Middle School operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 647 students in 2018 compared to 663 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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