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Meadowdale Middle School
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Meadowdale Middle School
Meadowdale Middle School is one of the mid-sized middle schools in LYNNWOOD, Washington, run under Edmonds School District, with 740 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Meadowdale Middle School sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.
Edmonds School District comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 20,955 students; Meadowdale Middle School is among them.
Demographically, Meadowdale Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 12% Black, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Meadowdale Middle School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Snohomish County's rate of about 41%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadowdale Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 52.5%, a residual of +7.6 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Snohomish County's 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), Meadowdale Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Meadowdale Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadowdale Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Meadowdale Middle School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 740 (now 740). Black enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.
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