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Oak Harbor Intermediate School
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Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Oak Harbor Intermediate School
Set in Oak Harbor, Washington, Oak Harbor Intermediate School is an average-sized junior high, run under Oak Harbor School District. It works with 767 students across grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Oak Harbor Intermediate School sits 33% above that benchmark.
Oak Harbor School District comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,635 students; Oak Harbor Intermediate School is among them.
On demographics, Oak Harbor Intermediate School reports that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Island County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Oak Harbor Intermediate School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at Oak Harbor Intermediate School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Oak Harbor Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +0.9 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Island County put median household earnings sit near $90,551, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Oak Harbor Intermediate School is one of 26 public schools in Island County (combined enrollment of about 8,561 students).
Homeconnection is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Harbor Intermediate School. On composite proficiency, Oak Harbor Intermediate School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.
Oak Harbor Intermediate School operates from a town-center location.
Over the past 7-year window. Oak Harbor Intermediate School's enrollment has declined 15% since 2018, when it stood at 900 (now 767). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 58% to 51%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
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