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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Lakota Middle School administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
645
Middle
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000442
Lakota Middle School
1415 SW 314TH ST, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98023 · (253) 945-4800 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL645 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% 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.
- 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.
- C+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
19.8:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
459 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 217 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 193 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 235 | 36% |
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
41.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.5pp since 2014
Math
24.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.4% | 24.5% |
| 2023-24 | 37.6% | 25.4% |
| 2022-23 | 36.9% | 22.7% |
| 2021-22 | 39.3% | 23.7% |
| 2018-19 | 56.1% | 33.0% |
| 2017-18 | 50.3% | 40.1% |
| 2016-17 | 53.8% | 33.1% |
| 2015-16 | 57.6% | 36.0% |
| 2014-15 | 51.9% | 33.7% |
% 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
31.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Lakota Middle School
Lakota Middle School's state test result (31.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakota Middle School this school | 645 | 71.2% | 31.7% |
| Gray Middle School Tacoma | 510 | 73.7% | 19.1% |
| Angelo Giaudrone Middle School Tacoma | 449 | 71.9% | 21.1% |
| Hudtloff Middle School Lakewood | 555 | 76.0% | 18.2% |
| Baker Middle School Tacoma | 687 | 71.5% | 29.0% |
| Sacajawea Middle School FEDERAL WAY | 668 | 77.7% | 28.6% |
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 Lakota Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.7% | #213 of 294 | #59 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #261 of 357 ▼ 17 | #60 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.4% | #229 of 357 ▲ 23 | #56 of 76 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.5pp | #162 of 290 | #47 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 645 | #170 of 377 | #54 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.8:1 | #202 of 340 | #37 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.1% | #14 of 340 | #7 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.2% | #59 of 359 | #14 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #51 of 192 | #11 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
645
-86 (-12%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 807
Student : Teacher
19.8:1
was 19.2:1
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 | 645 | 32.6 | 19.8:1 | 71% (459) |
| 2023-24 | 618 | 32 | 19.3:1 | 71% (436) |
| 2022-23 | 632 | 35.9 | 17.6:1 | 70% (441) |
| 2020-21 | 731 | 38 | 19.2:1 | 63% (463) |
| 2017-18 | 782 | 42.5 | 18.4:1 | 53% (415) |
| 2015-16 | 769 | 41 | 18.8:1 | 56% (429) |
| 2010-11 | 764 | 42 | 18.2:1 | 34% (259) |
| 2000-01 | 795 | 36 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 807 | 33 | 24.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lakota Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (782 to 645); teachers down 23% (42.5 to 32.6).
About Lakota Middle School
Lakota Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school that serves part of FEDERAL WAY, Washington. A total of 645 students attend the school, which covers grades 6 through 8.
The district, Federal Way School District, has 22,250 students enrolled across 43 schools.
Lakota Middle School's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 34%. The school is also 21% White, 17% Black, 15% multiracial, and 7% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 11%. The chance that two students picked at random at Lakota Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 78%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 19.8:1, with 32.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 18.9:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Lakota Middle School is 71%. That is higher than the 38% average for public schools in King County.
Lakota Middle School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 45% of Washington public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Lakota Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 31.7% and a predicted 32.5%.
Within King County, median household income is about $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Federal data list 544 public schools in King County, with a combined enrollment of about 278,492.
Nearest public school: Adelaide Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Lakota Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Lakota Middle School's average proficiency of 31.7% compares with 24.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 645 was 12% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 731.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Lakota Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in FEDERAL WAY
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Illahee Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 598 students
Other Lakota Middle schools
One other US public school is named Lakota Middle. Lakota Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Lakota Middle SchoolKansas, OH · 288 students
Nearby schools
- Adelaide Elementary School0.7 mi · 321
- Decatur High School0.7 mi · 1,352
- Silver Lake Elementary School0.7 mi · 382
- Lake Grove Elementary School0.9 mi · 390
- Olympic View Elementary School0.9 mi · 547
- Employment Transition Program1.2 mi · 62
Frequently asked questions
About Lakota Middle SchoolHow large is Lakota Middle School?
Lakota Middle School enrolls approximately 645 students in grades 06-08.
Is Lakota Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lakota Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Lakota Middle School have?
Lakota Middle School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Lakota Middle School?
Student demographics at Lakota Middle School are roughly 21% White, 34% Hispanic, 17% Black, 7% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is Lakota Middle School public or private?
Lakota Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.