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Which teacher or staff member at Lakewood Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
668
Middle
DISTRICT 543 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKEWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530426000686
Lakewood Middle School
16800 16th Dr N.E., Marysville, WA 98271 · (360) 652-4510 · Snohomish County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL668 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 14% of Washington public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
20.8:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
335 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 241 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 211 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 216 | 32% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Lakewood Middle School→Lakewood High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Lakewood School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
34.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -14.2pp since 2014
Math
24.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -12.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.5% | 24.5% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 23.2% |
| 2022-23 | 32.3% | 20.0% |
| 2021-22 | 36.8% | 18.6% |
| 2018-19 | 56.4% | 41.8% |
| 2017-18 | 55.0% | 45.8% |
| 2016-17 | 50.7% | 42.3% |
| 2015-16 | 49.7% | 45.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.7% | 36.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Lakewood Middle School
Lakewood Middle School's state test result (30.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakewood Middle School this school | 668 | 50.1% | 30.2% |
| Cougar Mountain Middle School Graham | 605 | 50.4% | 43.9% |
| Carmichael Middle School Richland | 791 | 49.6% | N/A |
| Yelm Middle School Yelm | 652 | 51.7% | 42.4% |
| Shuksan Middle School Bellingham | 606 | 52.1% | 35.1% |
| Lynden Middle School LYNDEN | 705 | 47.5% | 41.0% |
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 Lakewood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #223 of 294 | #30 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #262 of 357 ▼ 1 | #28 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #280 of 357 ▲ 9 | #29 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.8pp | #155 of 290 | #17 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 668 | #152 of 377 | #19 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.8:1 | #265 of 340 | #16 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.9% | #152 of 340 | #22 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.1% | #182 of 359 | #11 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.8% | #34 of 130 | #3 of 17 |
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
668
+44 (+7%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 409
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
was 19.5:1
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 | 668 | 32.1 | 20.8:1 | 50% (335) |
| 2023-24 | 617 | 32.1 | 19.2:1 | 53% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 599 | 30.9 | 19.4:1 | 50% (301) |
| 2020-21 | 624 | 32 | 19.5:1 | 42% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 28 | 20.4:1 | 37% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 552 | 25 | 22.1:1 | 35% (194) |
| 2010-11 | 594 | 27 | 22.0:1 | 30% (179) |
| 2000-01 | 609 | 26 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 409 | 18 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakewood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (572 to 668); teachers up 15% (28 to 32.1).
About Lakewood Middle School
In Marysville, Washington, part of Snohomish County, Lakewood Middle School is a middle school. Enrollment totals 668 students across grades 6 through 8.
The district, Lakewood School District, operates 5 schools serving 2,713 students.
Federal enrollment data show Lakewood Middle School is 57% White. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 3% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 60, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 32.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 20.8 students per teacher. Across middle schools in Washington, the average ratio is 18.9:1. Lakewood Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 50%. Compared with the 41% average for public schools in Snohomish County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Washington public middle schools, Lakewood Middle School outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Lakewood Middle School is 16.3 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Washington.
The school is in Snohomish County, where the median household earns about $111,246 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Lakewood Middle School shares Snohomish County with 226 other public schools.
About 0.1 miles separate Lakewood Middle School from the closest public school, Lakewood Elementary School. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Lakewood Middle School ranks 5th of 6 nearby schools, at 30.2% versus a 34.7% average.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Mid-size by the National Center for Education Statistics.
A 7% rise took enrollment from 624 in 2020-21 to 668 in 2024-25. The ratio was 19.5:1 in 2020-21 and 20.8:1 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Lakewood Middle School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakewood School District
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 834 students
- Lakewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 458 students
- Cougar Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 422 students
- English Crossing ElementaryElementary · 331 students
Other schools in Marysville
- Marysville Getchell High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Marysville Pilchuck High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Cedarcrest SchoolMiddle · 704 students
- Marysville Middle SchoolMiddle · 656 students
- Totem Middle SchoolMiddle · 522 students
- Kellogg Marsh Elementary SchoolElementary · 468 students
Other Lakewood Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Lakewood Middle. Lakewood Middle School is the largest of the 6.
- Lakewood Middle SchoolSalina, KS · 647 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolLAKEWOOD, NJ · 574 students
- Lakewood MiddleOverland Park, KS · 537 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolWOODLAND, MI · 514 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolHebron, OH · 394 students
Nearby schools
- Lakewood Elementary School0.1 mi · 458
- English Crossing Elementary0.1 mi · 331
- Lakewood High School0.2 mi · 834
- Cougar Creek Elementary School0.6 mi · 422
- Weston High School1.8 mi · 107
- Arlington Open Doors1.8 mi · 64
Frequently asked questions
About Lakewood Middle SchoolHow many students attend Lakewood Middle School?
Lakewood Middle School enrolls approximately 668 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lakewood Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lakewood Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lakewood Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lakewood Middle School is approximately 20.8:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lakewood Middle School?
At Lakewood Middle School, the student body is approximately 57% White, 25% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Lakewood Middle School public or private?
Lakewood Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lakewood School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.