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Enrollment
639
Middle
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001483
Mason Middle School
3901 N 28th St, Tacoma, WA 98407 · (253) 571-7000 · Pierce County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL639 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 65% of Washington public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
189 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 231 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 211 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 197 | 31% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · 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
66.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.9pp since 2014
Math
47.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 47.2% |
| 2023-24 | 63.5% | 42.4% |
| 2022-23 | 64.8% | 42.0% |
| 2021-22 | 64.6% | 44.1% |
| 2018-19 | 73.2% | 56.1% |
| 2017-18 | 68.8% | 54.0% |
| 2016-17 | 67.7% | 57.3% |
| 2015-16 | 68.4% | 57.4% |
| 2014-15 | 65.1% | 55.0% |
% 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
54.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Mason Middle School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason Middle School this school | 639 | 29.6% | 54.7% |
| Alki Middle School VANCOUVER | 594 | 29.3% | N/A |
| Sunset Ridge Intermediate School Ridgefield | 616 | 27.3% | N/A |
| View Ridge Middle School RIDGEFIELD | 666 | 29.6% | N/A |
| Centennial Middle School Snohomish | 734 | 28.2% | 39.3% |
| Kulshan Middle School Bellingham | 575 | 28.7% | 60.1% |
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 Mason Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #68 of 294 | #9 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #92 of 357 ▲ 13 | #11 of 45 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #52 of 357 ▲ 13 | #9 of 45 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #132 of 290 | #25 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 639 | #175 of 377 | #23 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.8:1 | #261 of 340 | #27 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.5% | #226 of 340 | #38 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.6% | #299 of 359 | #40 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.0% | #48 of 192 | #7 of 23 |
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
639
-163 (-20%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 642
Student : Teacher
20.8:1
was 22.3:1
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 | 639 | 30.8 | 20.8:1 | 30% (189) |
| 2023-24 | 608 | 30.5 | 19.9:1 | 31% (189) |
| 2022-23 | 659 | 31.9 | 20.6:1 | 29% (194) |
| 2020-21 | 802 | 36 | 22.3:1 | 29% (231) |
| 2017-18 | 779 | 36.4 | 21.4:1 | 27% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 844 | 40 | 21.1:1 | 32% (268) |
| 2010-11 | 798 | 40 | 19.9:1 | 26% (207) |
| 2000-01 | 774 | 42 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 642 | 35 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mason Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (779 to 639); teachers down 15% (36.4 to 30.8).
About Mason Middle School
Mason Middle School is a middle-grades school in Tacoma, Washington, according to federal school records. A federal count lists 639 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8.
Tacoma School District is the local district for Mason Middle School. It runs 66 schools with 28,900 students.
At 67%, White students outnumber all other groups at Mason Middle School combined. After that, the student body is 14% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 3% Black. That is close to the 64% White share among all Pierce County residents. By the diversity index, Mason Middle School comes in at 52%.
A ratio of 20.8:1 comes from the school's 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, middle schools in Washington average 18.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 30% in 2024-25. Among public schools in Pierce County, the average eligibility rate is 50%.
allk12 grades Mason Middle School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Washington public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Mason Middle School would score about 60.4%. It scores 54.7%, 5.7 points below that figure.
Pierce County has about 930,319 residents, and median household income is about $99,564, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Pierce County number 287 and enroll about 138,462.
The nearest other public school, Washington Elementary School, is about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Mason Middle School places 7th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Mason Middle School went from 802 students to 639. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.3:1 in 2020-21 to 20.8:1 in 2024-25.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Mason Middle School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tacoma School District
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- Tacoma School of the ArtsHigh · 658 students
Other schools in Tacoma
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
Other Mason Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mason Middle. Mason Middle School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Mason Middle SchoolMason, OH · 1,637 students
- Mason Middle SchoolMASON, MI · 778 students
- Mason Middle SchoolWATERFORD, MI · 731 students
- Mason Middle SchoolERIE, MI · 223 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Elementary School0.2 mi · 383
- Sherman Elementary School0.8 mi · 432
- Downing Elementary School0.8 mi · 298
- Jefferson Elementary School0.9 mi · 358
- Dr. Dolores Silas High School1.2 mi · 1,160
- Lowell Elementary School1.2 mi · 331
Frequently asked questions
About Mason Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mason Middle School?
Mason Middle School enrolls approximately 639 students in grades 06-08.
Is Mason Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mason Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Mason Middle School?
Approximately 20.8:1 students per teacher at Mason Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Mason Middle School?
Student demographics at Mason Middle School are roughly 67% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Mason Middle School public or private?
Mason Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tacoma School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.