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Does Northwood Middle School have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
796
Middle
DISTRICT 775 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530492000748
Northwood Middle School
12908 N PITTSBURG ST, SPOKANE, WA 99208 · (509) 465-7500 · Spokane County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL796 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 49% of Washington public middle schools
- B+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.
- C-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
18.7:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.3:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
307 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 285 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 248 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 263 | 33% |
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
58.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -9.2pp since 2014
Math
42.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.9% | 42.4% |
| 2023-24 | 56.4% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.4% | 41.0% |
| 2021-22 | 61.0% | 43.4% |
| 2018-19 | 68.9% | 63.2% |
| 2017-18 | 68.4% | 62.0% |
| 2016-17 | 67.9% | 64.4% |
| 2015-16 | 68.8% | 63.7% |
| 2014-15 | 68.1% | 53.9% |
% 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
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Northwood Middle School
Northwood Middle School's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwood Middle School this school | 796 | 38.6% | 47.9% |
| Evergreen Middle School Spokane Valley | 668 | 35.8% | 52.8% |
| John Sedgwick Middle School PORT ORCHARD | 731 | 39.8% | 53.8% |
| Selkirk Middle School Liberty Lake | 613 | 35.7% | 51.7% |
| Sacajawea Middle School Spokane | 855 | 40.4% | 58.4% |
| Mountainside Middle School COLBERT | 824 | 44.9% | 48.9% |
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 Northwood Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #104 of 294 | #10 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #123 of 357 ▼ 4 | #14 of 26 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #95 of 357 ▲ 3 | #7 of 26 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #58 of 290 | #8 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 796 | #75 of 377 | #3 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #136 of 340 | #24 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.2% | #312 of 340 | #21 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.6% | #254 of 359 | #21 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #82 of 192 | #7 of 13 |
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
796
+10 (+1%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 686
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 19.2:1
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 | 796 | 42.5 | 18.7:1 | 39% (307) |
| 2023-24 | 767 | 44.1 | 17.4:1 | 35% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 798 | 43.3 | 18.4:1 | 32% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 786 | 41 | 19.2:1 | 18% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 917 | 46.4 | 19.8:1 | 25% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 734 | 39 | 18.8:1 | 27% (198) |
| 2010-11 | 762 | 37 | 20.6:1 | 27% (206) |
| 2000-01 | 666 | 34 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 686 | 34 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northwood Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (917 to 796); teachers down 8% (46.4 to 42.5).
About Northwood Middle School
Northwood Middle School is a public mid-sized middle school in SPOKANE, Washington. The school counted 796 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. The school is 38% above the average for middle schools in Washington.
The 17 schools of Mead School District, including Northwood Middle School, enroll 10,657 students.
Roughly 81% of students at Northwood Middle School are White. The remaining students are 8% Hispanic and 7% multiracial. Spokane County residents are about 83% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Northwood Middle School scores 32%.
Northwood Middle School has 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.7:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Washington is similar, at 18.9:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 39% at Northwood Middle School. That is lower than the 52% average for public schools in Spokane County.
On the allk12 Grade, Northwood Middle School lands at B-, ahead of 49% of Washington public middle schools.
Schools in Washington with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 54.3%. Northwood Middle School scores 47.9%.
Looking at the county, Spokane County, median household income comes to about $78,582, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 187, with about 76,588 students.
Northwood Middle School is about 0.2 miles from Farwell Elementary School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Northwood Middle School's average proficiency of 47.9% compares with 55.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (786) and 2024-25 (796).
Anyone can start a thread about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Northwood Middle School. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mead School District
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Mt Spokane High SchoolHigh · 1,482 students
- Mountainside Middle SchoolMiddle · 824 students
- Mead Learning OptionsCombined · 790 students
- Highland Middle SchoolMiddle · 704 students
- Farwell Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
Other schools in SPOKANE
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Other Northwood Middle schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Northwood Middle. Northwood Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 8.
- Northwood Middle SchoolRenton, WA · 911 students
- Northwood MiddleTaylors, SC · 823 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolElyria, OH · 599 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolFort Wayne, IN · 585 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolWoodstock, IL · 576 students
Nearby schools
- Farwell Elementary School0.2 mi · 471
- Mead Open Doors0.3 mi · 9
- Creekside Elementary School1.1 mi · 355
- Mead Senior High School1.5 mi · 1,827
- Brentwood Elementary School1.7 mi · 468
- Meadow Ridge Elementary2.1 mi · 453
Frequently asked questions
About Northwood Middle SchoolHow many students attend Northwood Middle School?
Northwood Middle School enrolls approximately 796 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Northwood Middle School serve?
Northwood Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Northwood Middle School?
Approximately 18.7:1 students per teacher at Northwood Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Northwood Middle School?
At Northwood Middle School, the student body is approximately 81% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Northwood Middle School in?
Northwood Middle School is part of Mead School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.