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Enrollment
826
Middle
DISTRICT 739 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530375000579
Maywood Middle School
14490 168TH AVE SE, RENTON, WA 98059 · (425) 837-6900 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL826 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% 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.
- A-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
20.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.4:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
151 students
DISTRICT 18% · 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 | 258 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 276 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 292 | 35% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
70.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.2pp since 2014
Math
66.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -1.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.4% | 66.8% |
| 2023-24 | 73.5% | 65.5% |
| 2022-23 | 69.4% | 63.3% |
| 2021-22 | 71.7% | 56.8% |
| 2018-19 | 75.4% | 71.2% |
| 2017-18 | 72.7% | 70.2% |
| 2016-17 | 73.6% | 72.2% |
| 2015-16 | 75.5% | 71.7% |
| 2014-15 | 74.5% | 67.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Maywood Middle School
Maywood Middle School's state test result (68.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maywood Middle School this school | 826 | 18.3% | 68.2% |
| Canyon Park Middle School Bothell | 907 | 19.2% | 61.6% |
| Kirkland Middle School Kirkland | 746 | 12.3% | 70.3% |
| Skyridge Middle School Camas | 760 | 16.4% | N/A |
| Northshore Middle School Bothell | 753 | 21.8% | 61.6% |
| Tillicum Middle School Bellevue | 676 | 19.8% | 67.7% |
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 Maywood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #26 of 294 | #22 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #25 of 357 ▼ 1 | #21 of 76 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #39 of 357 ▼ 10 | #27 of 76 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #96 of 290 | #26 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 826 | #57 of 377 | #24 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.3:1 | #231 of 340 | #46 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #104 of 340 | #46 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.3% | #329 of 359 | #55 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.6% | #19 of 192 | #6 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
826
-337 (-29%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
20.3:1
was 20.4:1
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 | 826 | 40.8 | 20.3:1 | 18% (151) |
| 2023-24 | 828 | 42.2 | 19.6:1 | 19% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 823 | 37.4 | 22.0:1 | 16% (135) |
| 2020-21 | 1,163 | 57 | 20.4:1 | 12% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 1,141 | 53.9 | 21.2:1 | 14% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 1,085 | 48 | 22.6:1 | 15% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 919 | 38 | 24.2:1 | 12% (112) |
| 2000-01 | 838 | 34 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 723 | 35 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maywood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (1,141 to 826); teachers down 24% (53.9 to 40.8).
About Maywood Middle School
Maywood Middle School, located in RENTON, Washington, is a medium-sized middle school. The school reports 826 students in grades 6 through 8. The typical figure for middle schools in Washington is about 577 students.
Issaquah School District enrolls 19,098 students in 30 schools, including Maywood Middle School.
White students are the largest group at Maywood Middle School, with 48% of enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 26% Asian, 13% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. Maywood Middle School has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Maywood Middle School employs 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 20.3:1. That ratio is over the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 18% in 2024-25. That is lower than the 38% average for public schools in King County.
allk12 grades Maywood Middle School an A. The grade compares the school only with Washington public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
Maywood Middle School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 68.2%, compared with a predicted 67.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe King County this way: median household income is about $124,746, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of King County number 544 and enroll about 278,492.
The closest public school to Maywood Middle School is Liberty Sr High School, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Maywood Middle School ranks 5th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 68.2% against a local average of 65.4%.
Maywood Middle School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Maywood Middle School went from 1,163 students to 826.
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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 Issaquah School District
- Issaquah High SchoolHigh · 2,419 students
- Skyline High SchoolHigh · 2,244 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Pine Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 877 students
- Issaquah Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
- Beaver Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 699 students
Other schools in RENTON
- Hazen Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,796 students
- Liberty Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,495 students
- Renton Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Lindbergh Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,201 students
- Nelsen Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
Other Maywood Middle schools
One other US public school is named Maywood Middle. Maywood Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Maywood MiddleCorning, CA · 515 students
Nearby schools
- Liberty Sr High School0.6 mi · 1,495
- Briarwood Elementary0.8 mi · 630
- Maplewood Heights Elementary School1.7 mi · 395
- Fairwood Elementary School1.7 mi · 355
- Apollo Elementary2.1 mi · 496
- Ridgewood Elementary School2.2 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About Maywood Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Maywood Middle School?
Maywood Middle School enrolls approximately 826 students in grades 06-08.
Is Maywood Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Maywood Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Maywood Middle School?
Approximately 20.3:1 students per teacher at Maywood Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Maywood Middle School?
Student demographics at Maywood Middle School are roughly 48% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 26% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Maywood Middle School in?
Maywood Middle School is part of Issaquah School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.