1
What do you wish you knew before starting at Morgan Middle School?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
772
Middle
DISTRICT 379 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELLENSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530246000367
Morgan Middle School
400 E First, Ellensburg, WA 98926 · (509) 925-8200 · Kittitas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL772 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Washington public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
19.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
325 students
DISTRICT 52% · 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 | 259 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 250 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 263 | 34% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Morgan Middle School→Ellensburg High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Ellensburg School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
40.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.5pp since 2014
Math
30.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -4.4pp 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 31 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 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.5% | 30.5% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 31.8% |
| 2022-23 | 36.8% | 33.0% |
| 2021-22 | 41.9% | 30.1% |
| 2018-19 | 50.6% | 45.7% |
| 2017-18 | 48.0% | 43.9% |
| 2016-17 | 44.9% | 45.4% |
| 2015-16 | 43.1% | 34.2% |
| 2014-15 | 39.0% | 34.9% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Morgan Middle School
Morgan Middle School's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Middle School this school | 772 | 42.1% | 37.0% |
| George Bush Middle School Tumwater | 762 | 39.0% | 49.4% |
| John Sedgwick Middle School PORT ORCHARD | 731 | 39.8% | 53.8% |
| Post Middle School Arlington | 645 | 45.7% | 37.1% |
| Orting Middle School Orting | 643 | 40.0% | 34.7% |
| Cedar Heights Middle School PORT ORCHARD | 689 | 42.8% | 51.0% |
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 Morgan Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #176 of 294 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #206 of 357 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #242 of 357 ▼ 73 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.5pp | #78 of 290 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 772 | #84 of 377 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #184 of 340 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.1% | #257 of 340 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.1% | #238 of 359 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.2% | #76 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
772
+24 (+3%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 772 | 39.6 | 19.5:1 | 42% (325) |
| 2023-24 | 773 | 39.4 | 19.6:1 | 46% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 778 | 40.3 | 19.3:1 | 50% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 748 | 43 | 17.4:1 | 47% (349) |
| 2017-18 | 727 | 40.8 | 17.8:1 | 37% (272) |
| 2015-16 | 712 | 36 | 19.8:1 | 40% (286) |
| 2010-11 | 714 | 35 | 20.4:1 | 29% (210) |
| 2000-01 | 656 | 33 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 565 | 27 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Morgan Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (727 to 772); teachers down 3% (40.8 to 39.6).
About Morgan Middle School
Morgan Middle School is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Ellensburg, Washington, (ZIP code 98926). Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 772 students. Against the 577-student average for middle schools in Washington, enrollment here is 34% higher.
Ellensburg School District has a total of 9 schools and 3,408 students, Morgan Middle School among them.
Roughly 70% of students at Morgan Middle School are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 82%. Morgan Middle School's diversity index is 46%, against a US figure of 70%.
Morgan Middle School employs 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 19.5:1. That matches the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 42% in 2024-25.
The allk12 Grade for Morgan Middle School is C-. Compared with Washington public middle schools, the school scored higher than 19% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After accounting for student poverty, Morgan Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 37.0% is 15.0 points below the 52.0% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
According to the American Community Survey, in Kittitas County, the median household income is $73,804, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. There are 21 public schools in Kittitas County, enrolling about 5,387 students in all.
The school nearest to Morgan Middle School is Lincoln Elementary, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 47.7%; Morgan Middle School's is 37.0%, ranking 6th of 6.
Morgan Middle School has an NCES locale of Town: Distant.
Enrollment is up 3% from 2020-21, when Morgan Middle School had 748 students, to 2024-25, when it had 772. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.4:1 to 19.5:1 over the same years.
If you have questions about school safety, transportation, and start times at Morgan Middle School, you can post them here. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Kittitas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
47,172
Census ACS
Median income
$73,804
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
5,387 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ellensburg School District
- Ellensburg High SchoolHigh · 957 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ida Nason Aronica ElementaryElementary · 361 students
- Mt. Stuart ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 334 students
- Ellensburg Choice SchoolsCombined · 148 students
Other schools in Ellensburg
- Ellensburg High SchoolHigh · 957 students
- Valley View Elementary SchoolElementary · 408 students
- Ida Nason Aronica ElementaryElementary · 361 students
- Mt. Stuart ElementaryElementary · 336 students
- Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 334 students
- Ellensburg Choice SchoolsCombined · 148 students
Other Morgan Middle schools
One other US public school is named Morgan Middle. Morgan Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Morgan MiddleMORGAN, UT · 493 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary0.2 mi · 334
- Ellensburg Open Doors0.7 mi · 38
- Ellensburg High School0.7 mi · 957
- Ellensburg Choice Schools0.8 mi · 148
- Valley View Elementary School1.0 mi · 408
- Early Learning Center1.4 mi · 54
Frequently asked questions
About Morgan Middle SchoolHow large is Morgan Middle School?
Morgan Middle School enrolls approximately 772 students in grades 06-08.
Is Morgan Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Morgan Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Morgan Middle School have?
Morgan Middle School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.5:1.
How diverse is Morgan Middle School?
Morgan Middle School reports a student body of 70% White, 23% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Morgan Middle School?
Morgan Middle School is overseen by Ellensburg School District in Kittitas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.