Mount Baker Middle School

Mount Baker Middle School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus in Mount Vernon, Washington, part of Mount Vernon School District. The school works with 569 students in grades 6 through 8.

Mount Baker Middle School is one of 14 schools operated by Mount Vernon School District, a district that instructs 6,326 students overall.

Demographically, Mount Baker Middle School lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 29% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 71% of students at Mount Baker Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Skagit County's rate of about 56%.

After controlling for student poverty, Mount Baker Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.7%; this one comes in at 21.2%, -11.5 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Skagit County) records that the typical household earns roughly $89,263 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Skagit County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,298 students), Mount Baker Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Little Mountain Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mount Baker Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mount Baker Middle School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 32.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Baker Middle School's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 672 (now 569). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 38% to 29%. Class-load math has grew: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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