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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Mountain View Middle School?
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Enrollment
937
Middle
DISTRICT 791 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUMNER-BONNEY LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530861002580
Mountain View Middle School
10921 199TH AVE CT E, Bonney Lake, WA 98390 · (253) 891-5200 · Pierce County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL937 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Washington public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+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
20.7:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
276 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 326 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 313 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 298 | 32% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
65.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +8.0pp since 2014
Math
50.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.8% | 50.8% |
| 2023-24 | 61.1% | 45.9% |
| 2022-23 | 59.0% | 46.1% |
| 2021-22 | 56.9% | 38.6% |
| 2018-19 | 71.5% | 58.4% |
| 2017-18 | 66.7% | 54.1% |
| 2016-17 | 63.9% | 53.8% |
| 2015-16 | 62.6% | 54.9% |
| 2014-15 | 57.8% | 48.7% |
% 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
54.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Mountain View Middle School
Mountain View Middle School's state test result (54.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain View Middle School this school | 937 | 29.5% | 54.6% |
| North Lake Middle School Lake Stevens | 856 | 32.2% | 55.7% |
| Centennial Middle School Snohomish | 734 | 28.2% | 39.3% |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School VANCOUVER | 786 | 35.2% | N/A |
| Liberty Middle School Camas | 708 | 26.1% | N/A |
| Mason Middle School Tacoma | 639 | 29.6% | 54.7% |
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 Mountain View Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.6% | #69 of 294 | #10 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #74 of 357 ▲ 17 | #8 of 45 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #61 of 357 ▲ 17 | #10 of 45 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.6pp | #16 of 290 | #4 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 937 | #24 of 377 | #2 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #255 of 340 | #25 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #166 of 340 | #33 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.5% | #300 of 359 | #41 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.7% | #13 of 130 | #2 of 19 |
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
937
+97 (+12%) vs 2020
+52% since 2000-01, when it was 617
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 20.0:1
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 | 937 | 45.3 | 20.7:1 | 29% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 870 | 43 | 20.2:1 | 31% (268) |
| 2022-23 | 847 | 43.9 | 19.3:1 | 29% (248) |
| 2020-21 | 840 | 42 | 20.0:1 | 26% (215) |
| 2017-18 | 706 | 37.4 | 18.9:1 | 30% (210) |
| 2015-16 | 631 | 31 | 20.4:1 | 33% (210) |
| 2010-11 | 605 | 30 | 20.2:1 | 31% (189) |
| 2000-01 | 617 | 30 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mountain View Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 33% (706 to 937); teachers up 21% (37.4 to 45.3).
About Mountain View Middle School
In Bonney Lake, Washington, part of Pierce County, Mountain View Middle School is a middle school. It enrolled 937 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, middle schools in Washington average about 577 students each.
Sumner-Bonney Lake School District enrolls 10,743 students, and its 15 schools include Mountain View Middle School.
By race and ethnicity, Mountain View Middle School is 61% White. It is also 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 3% Black. For comparison, Pierce County is about 64% White. By the diversity index, Mountain View Middle School comes in at 57%.
Teachers at Mountain View Middle School total 45.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 20.7:1. The 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington is lower than this school's figure. The school counts 276 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 29%. That is 21 points below the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County.
Mountain View Middle School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 73% of Washington public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 60.4% at Mountain View Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 54.6%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Pierce County, median household income is about $99,564, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Mountain View Middle School is one of 287 public schools in Pierce County, which together enroll about 138,462 students.
Bonney Lake High School is the public school closest to Mountain View Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Mountain View Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Mountain View Middle School ranks 8th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 54.6% against a local average of 66.0%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
The number of students grew from 840 to 937 over 4 years.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sumner-Bonney Lake School District
- Sumner High SchoolHigh · 1,857 students
- Bonney Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Sumner Middle SchoolMiddle · 674 students
- Donald Eismann ElementaryElementary · 648 students
- Maple Lawn ElementaryElementary · 628 students
Other schools in Bonney Lake
- Bonney Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Lakeridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 763 students
- Donald Eismann ElementaryElementary · 648 students
- Tehaleh Heights Elementary SchoolElementary · 627 students
- Emerald Hills ElementaryElementary · 551 students
- Victor Falls ElementaryElementary · 513 students
Other Mountain View Middle schools
15 other US public schools in 8 states are named Mountain View Middle. Mountain View Middle School is the 4th largest of the 16.
- Mountain View Middle SchoolBremerton, WA · 856 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMechanicsburg, PA · 1,403 students
- Mountain View MiddleMoreno Valley, CA · 1,114 students
- Mountain View MiddleBeaumont, CA · 978 students
- MOUNTAIN VIEW MIDDLERIO RANCHO, NM · 931 students
Nearby schools
- Bonney Lake High School0.3 mi · 1,643
- Victor Falls Elementary0.8 mi · 513
- Liberty Ridge Elementary1.0 mi · 515
- Donald Eismann Elementary2.0 mi · 648
- Bonney Lake Elementary2.0 mi · 435
- Foothills Elementary2.2 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Mountain View Middle SchoolHow many students attend Mountain View Middle School?
Mountain View Middle School enrolls approximately 937 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Mountain View Middle School serve?
Mountain View Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mountain View Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mountain View Middle School is approximately 20.7:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Mountain View Middle School?
Student demographics at Mountain View Middle School are roughly 61% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Mountain View Middle School in?
Mountain View Middle School is part of Sumner-Bonney Lake School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.