Enrollment
244
Middle
DISTRICT 226 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT BAKER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530531002608
Mount Baker Junior High
4936 DEMING RD, DEMING, WA 98244 · (360) 383-2015 · Whatcom County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL244 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
147 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 7 | 124 | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 120 | 49% |
Student demographics
50%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
Mount Baker Junior High→Mount Baker Senior High
Based on grade levels within Mount Baker School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
32.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -19.6pp since 2014
Math
19.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -25.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 20 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 26 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.1% | 19.3% |
| 2023-24 | 35.6% | 20.2% |
| 2022-23 | 33.9% | 17.8% |
| 2021-22 | 36.1% | 19.3% |
| 2018-19 | 45.6% | 30.1% |
| 2017-18 | 54.0% | 37.4% |
| 2016-17 | 55.8% | 43.5% |
| 2015-16 | 62.3% | 52.0% |
| 2014-15 | 51.7% | 45.1% |
% 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
26.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% 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 Mount Baker Junior High
Mount Baker Junior High's state test result (26.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Baker Junior High this school | 244 | 60.2% | 26.5% |
| Pioneer Middle School SHELTON | 250 | 64.0% | 23.4% |
| Hilltop Elementary School Ilwaco | 188 | 62.8% | 29.4% |
| Lincoln Middle School Clarkston | 346 | 56.9% | N/A |
| Blue Heron Middle School Port Townsend | 222 | 53.6% | 42.4% |
| Tenino Middle School Tenino | 291 | 52.6% | 36.2% |
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 Mount Baker Junior High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Whatcom County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.5% | #244 of 294 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.3% | #294 of 357 ▼ 11 | #11 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #293 of 357 ▼ 25 | #11 of 11 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #51 of 290 | #2 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 244 | #325 of 377 | #11 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #81 of 340 | #6 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.9% | #235 of 340 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.2% | #113 of 359 | #1 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.0% | #34 of 192 | #1 of 8 |
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
244
-20 (-8%) vs 2020
-36% since 2000-01, when it was 380
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 244 | 13.8 | 17.7:1 | 60% (147) |
| 2023-24 | 247 | 15.2 | 16.3:1 | 51% (126) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 17 | 16.3:1 | 58% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 14 | 18.9:1 | 60% (159) |
| 2017-18 | 309 | 13.2 | 23.4:1 | 61% (190) |
| 2015-16 | 257 | 13 | 19.8:1 | 61% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 307 | 18 | 17.1:1 | 56% (173) |
| 2000-01 | 380 | 19 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mount Baker Junior High.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (309 to 244); teachers up 5% (13.2 to 13.8).
About Mount Baker Junior High
Students in DEMING, Washington, attend Mount Baker Junior High, a small middle school. It had 244 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 7 through 8. That compares with an average of about 577 students for middle schools in Washington.
Mount Baker Junior High is a school in Mount Baker School District. The district has 7 schools and 1,580 students.
About 68% of the student body at Mount Baker Junior High is White. Smaller groups are 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Native American, and 2% Black. County-wide, 78% of Whatcom County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
For every teacher at Mount Baker Junior High, there are about 17.7 students; the school has 13.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Washington, 18.9:1, is higher. There are 147 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 60% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Whatcom County is 47%.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Mount Baker Junior High posts 26.5% against a 39.8% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Washington.
Whatcom County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $81,784, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Whatcom County's 78 public schools enroll about 27,779 students and include Mount Baker Junior High.
Mount Baker Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 4. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 39.7%; Mount Baker Junior High's is 26.5%, ranking 7th of 7.
Mount Baker Junior High is in rural territory some distance from an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Distant.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 8%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.9 to 17.7 over 4 years.
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Whatcom County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,503
Census ACS
Median income
$81,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
27,779 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mount Baker School District
- Mount Baker Senior HighHigh · 513 students
- Kendall ElementaryElementary · 317 students
- Harmony ElementaryElementary · 288 students
- Acme ElementaryElementary · 168 students
- Mount Baker AcademyCombined · 32 students
- Educational Resource CenterElementary · 18 students
Other schools in DEMING
- Mount Baker Senior HighHigh · 513 students
- Mount Baker AcademyCombined · 32 students
- Educational Resource CenterElementary · 18 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Baker Academy0.0 mi · 32
- Mount Baker Senior High0.1 mi · 513
- Educational Resource Center0.1 mi · 18
- Harmony Elementary5.0 mi · 288
- Kendall Elementary7.2 mi · 317
- Acme Elementary7.4 mi · 168
Frequently asked questions
About Mount Baker Junior HighWhat is the total enrollment at Mount Baker Junior High?
Mount Baker Junior High enrolls approximately 244 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Mount Baker Junior High serve?
Mount Baker Junior High serves grades 07-08.
How many students per teacher at Mount Baker Junior High?
Approximately 17.7:1 students per teacher at Mount Baker Junior High.
What is the student diversity at Mount Baker Junior High?
Student demographics at Mount Baker Junior High are roughly 68% White, 17% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Mount Baker Junior High in?
Mount Baker Junior High is part of Mount Baker School District.
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