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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Miller Junior High this year?
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Enrollment
656
Middle
DISTRICT 245 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABERDEEN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530003000009
Miller Junior High
100 E Lindstrom, Aberdeen, WA 98520 · (360) 538-2100 · Grays Harbor County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.6:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
458 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 232 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 213 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 211 | 32% |
Student demographics
61%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
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
29.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.1pp since 2014
Math
15.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 10 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 | 29.6% | 15.8% |
| 2023-24 | 29.9% | 15.9% |
| 2022-23 | 29.8% | 14.2% |
| 2021-22 | 27.6% | 15.2% |
| 2018-19 | 44.4% | 37.0% |
| 2017-18 | 41.0% | 33.0% |
| 2016-17 | 42.9% | 31.9% |
| 2015-16 | 45.2% | 33.6% |
| 2014-15 | 39.7% | 27.6% |
% 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
23.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Miller Junior High
Miller Junior High's state test result (23.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Junior High this school | 656 | 69.8% | 23.6% |
| Olympic Middle School Shelton | 601 | 70.0% | 23.9% |
| Pioneer Middle School WALLA WALLA | 601 | 66.2% | 34.8% |
| Oakland Bay Junior High School Shelton | 544 | 65.6% | 21.3% |
| Discovery Middle School VANCOUVER | 525 | 67.0% | N/A |
| Gaiser Middle School VANCOUVER | 750 | 67.6% | N/A |
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 Miller Junior High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #254 of 294 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.8% | #323 of 357 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #308 of 357 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.2pp | #167 of 290 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #161 of 377 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #221 of 340 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #146 of 340 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.8% | #65 of 359 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.1% | #10 of 130 |
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
656
-125 (-16%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 571
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 23.7:1
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 | 656 | 32.5 | 20.2:1 | 70% (458) |
| 2023-24 | 674 | 34 | 19.8:1 | 69% (467) |
| 2022-23 | 718 | 40 | 17.9:1 | 68% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 781 | 33 | 23.7:1 | 78% (607) |
| 2017-18 | 482 | 25.6 | 18.8:1 | 72% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 457 | 24 | 19.0:1 | 70% (322) |
| 2010-11 | 502 | 28 | 17.9:1 | 62% (312) |
| 2000-01 | 635 | 35 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 571 | 28 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Miller Junior High.
Since 2017-18: students up 36% (482 to 656); teachers up 27% (25.6 to 32.5).
About Miller Junior High
Among the schools in Aberdeen, Washington, is Miller Junior High, a mid-sized middle-grades school. It teaches 656 students in grades 6 through 8.
Aberdeen School District (13 schools, 3,183 students) runs Miller Junior High.
At Miller Junior High, White students make up the biggest share, 49%. Other students are 38% Hispanic and 9% multiracial. By comparison, Grays Harbor County residents are about 79% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Miller Junior High comes to 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 20.2:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1. Miller Junior High counts 70% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
After adjusting for student poverty, Miller Junior High lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 23.6%; the prediction is 33.4%.
For Grays Harbor County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $64,414 a year, roughly 18% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Miller Junior High, Grays Harbor County has 46 public schools.
Miller Junior High is about 0.3 miles from Stevens Elementary School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Miller Junior High is 5th of 6 on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Remote: the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.
In 2020-21, Miller Junior High enrolled 781 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 656. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 23.7:1 to 20.2:1.
This page is set up for the Miller Junior High community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Grays Harbor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
77,053
Census ACS
Median income
$64,414
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
10,564 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Aberdeen School District
- J M Weatherwax High SchoolHigh · 919 students
- Stevens Elementary SchoolElementary · 332 students
- McDermoth ElementaryElementary · 288 students
- A J West ElementaryElementary · 281 students
- Robert Gray ElementaryElementary · 210 students
- Harbor Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 128 students
Other schools in Aberdeen
- J M Weatherwax High SchoolHigh · 919 students
- Stevens Elementary SchoolElementary · 332 students
- McDermoth ElementaryElementary · 288 students
- A J West ElementaryElementary · 281 students
- Robert Gray ElementaryElementary · 210 students
- Wishkah Valley Elementary/High SchoolCombined · 178 students
Other Miller Junior High schools
One other US public school is named Miller Junior High. Miller Junior High is the largest of the 2.
- Miller Jr. High - 04Miller, SD · 74 students
Nearby schools
- Stevens Elementary School0.3 mi · 332
- Grays Harbor Juvenile Detention1.1 mi · 11
- Cosmopolis Elementary School1.2 mi · 175
- J M Weatherwax High School1.6 mi · 919
- Twin Harbors A Branch of New Market Skills Center1.7 mi · 31
- McDermoth Elementary1.7 mi · 288
Frequently asked questions
About Miller Junior HighWhat is the total enrollment at Miller Junior High?
Miller Junior High enrolls approximately 656 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Miller Junior High serve?
Miller Junior High serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Miller Junior High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Miller Junior High is approximately 20.2:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Miller Junior High?
At Miller Junior High, the student body is approximately 49% White, 38% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Miller Junior High in?
Miller Junior High is part of Aberdeen School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.