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Enrollment
856
Middle
DISTRICT 783 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE STEVENS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530420001906
North Lake Middle School
2202 123rd Ave NE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258 · (425) 335-1530 · Snohomish County
GRADES 06–07MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL856 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% 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.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.2:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
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 | 439 | 51% |
| Grade 7 | 417 | 49% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
59.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -6.5pp since 2014
Math
53.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 7 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 | 59.9% | 53.7% |
| 2023-24 | 58.8% | 50.1% |
| 2022-23 | 59.6% | 45.4% |
| 2021-22 | 55.2% | 41.0% |
| 2018-19 | 68.8% | 52.1% |
| 2017-18 | 70.8% | 57.7% |
| 2016-17 | 70.3% | 56.1% |
| 2015-16 | 71.9% | 61.0% |
| 2014-15 | 66.4% | 57.3% |
% 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
55.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 North Lake Middle School
North Lake Middle School's state test result (55.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Lake Middle School this school | 856 | 32.2% | 55.7% |
| Lake Stevens Middle School Lake Stevens | 709 | 32.7% | 52.9% |
| Mountain View Middle School Bonney Lake | 937 | 29.5% | 54.6% |
| Lakeridge Middle School Bonney Lake | 763 | 37.7% | 59.9% |
| Pacific Middle School Vancouver | 817 | 37.5% | N/A |
| Thomas Jefferson Middle School VANCOUVER | 786 | 35.2% | 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 North Lake Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #66 of 294 | #8 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #62 of 357 ▲ 8 | #7 of 32 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #84 of 357 ▼ 1 | #8 of 32 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.8pp | #30 of 290 | #6 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 856 | #45 of 377 | #8 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #256 of 340 | #13 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #155 of 340 | #23 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #290 of 359 | #26 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.3% | #40 of 130 | #4 of 17 |
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
856
+73 (+9%) vs 2020
+144% since 1990-91, when it was 351
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 20.1:1
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 | 856 | 41.4 | 20.7:1 | 32% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 811 | 40.6 | 20.0:1 | 30% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 789 | 39.9 | 19.8:1 | 31% (242) |
| 2020-21 | 783 | 39 | 20.1:1 | 28% (219) |
| 2017-18 | 749 | 34.3 | 21.8:1 | 25% (187) |
| 2015-16 | 699 | 32 | 21.8:1 | 27% (186) |
| 2010-11 | 685 | 31 | 22.1:1 | 28% (191) |
| 2000-01 | 754 | 33 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 351 | 16 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for North Lake Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (749 to 856); teachers up 21% (34.3 to 41.4).
About North Lake Middle School
North Lake Middle School is a mid-sized middle school serving families in Lake Stevens, Washington. It reported 856 students in grades 6 through 7 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 577 students for middle schools in Washington.
Enrollment across the 14 schools in Lake Stevens School District totals 10,117 students.
Of every 100 students at North Lake Middle School, about 61 are White. After that, the student body is 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian, and 5% Black. Among Snohomish County residents, the White share is about 64%. The diversity index for North Lake Middle School is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
A staff of 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 20.7:1. Compared with the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 41% for public schools in Snohomish County.
Among Washington public middle schools, North Lake Middle School outscored 80%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, North Lake Middle School's results are 2.9 points below predicted: 55.7% against 58.6%.
American Community Survey estimates for Snohomish County show that the median household earns about $111,246 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Snohomish County, 227 public schools serve about 118,688 students.
Measured in a straight line, LSSD Open Doors is less than a tenth of a mile from North Lake Middle School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, North Lake Middle School is behind the 61.0% nearby average, ranking 5th of 6.
In the federal locale system, North Lake Middle School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's enrollment increased 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lake Stevens School District
- Lake Stevens Sr High SchoolHigh · 2,205 students
- Cavelero Mid High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 842 students
- Lake Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Stevens Creek ElementaryElementary · 701 students
- Sunnycrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 695 students
Other schools in Lake Stevens
- Lake Stevens Sr High SchoolHigh · 2,205 students
- Cavelero Mid High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 842 students
- Lake Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Stevens Creek ElementaryElementary · 701 students
- Sunnycrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 695 students
Nearby schools
- LSSD Open Doors0.1 mi · 15
- Mt. Pilchuck Elementary School0.4 mi · 554
- Lake Stevens Sr High School0.8 mi · 2,205
- Homelink0.8 mi · 31
- Highland Elementary0.9 mi · 557
- Sunnycrest Elementary School1.6 mi · 695
Frequently asked questions
About North Lake Middle SchoolHow large is North Lake Middle School?
North Lake Middle School enrolls approximately 856 students in grades 06-07.
What grades does North Lake Middle School serve?
North Lake Middle School serves grades 06-07.
What is the student-teacher ratio at North Lake Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at North Lake Middle School is approximately 20.7:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at North Lake Middle School?
At North Lake Middle School, the student body is approximately 61% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% Black, 9% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is North Lake Middle School public or private?
North Lake Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lake Stevens School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.