Northstar Middle School

Northstar Middle School is one of the minimally staffed middle schools in Kirkland, Washington, part of Lake Washington School District, with 85 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 85% below the state mean of about 577.

Lake Washington School District comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 30,986 students; Northstar Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Northstar Middle School records that 60% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest looks like 26% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Northstar Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, King County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for King County put median household income runs about $124,746, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Northstar Middle School is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Emerson K-12 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northstar Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Northstar Middle School's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 90 (now 85). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 53% to 26%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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