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Enrollment
717
Middle
DISTRICT 351 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·QUINCY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530708001056
Quincy Middle School
16 Sixth Ave SE, QUINCY, WA 98848 · (509) 787-4435 · Grant County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL717 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 33% of Washington public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
16.3:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.2:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
573 students
DISTRICT 78% · 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 | 222 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 226 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 269 | 38% |
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Quincy Middle School→Quincy High School
Based on grade levels within Quincy School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
33.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +11.7pp since 2014
Math
19.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.3% | 19.2% |
| 2023-24 | 35.9% | 21.8% |
| 2022-23 | 34.4% | 21.6% |
| 2021-22 | 34.1% | 22.1% |
| 2018-19 | 40.0% | 36.1% |
| 2017-18 | 40.3% | 33.0% |
| 2016-17 | 35.2% | 24.6% |
| 2015-16 | 24.7% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 21.7% | 22.0% |
% 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
26.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% 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 Quincy Middle School
Quincy Middle School's state test result (26.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quincy Middle School this school | 717 | 79.9% | 26.4% |
| McFarland Middle School Othello | 702 | 83.8% | N/A |
| Harrison Middle School Sunnyside | 820 | 83.0% | 26.7% |
| Grandview Middle School Grandview | 815 | 84.8% | 31.6% |
| Franklin Middle School Yakima | 848 | 85.0% | 29.0% |
| Toppenish Middle School TOPPENISH | 757 | 89.7% | 19.4% |
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 Quincy Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Grant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #246 of 294 | #7 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #295 of 357 ▼ 23 | #8 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #288 of 357 ▼ 23 | #7 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.8pp | #54 of 290 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 717 | #123 of 377 | #2 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #29 of 340 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.5% | #327 of 340 | #9 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.9% | #25 of 359 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +82.4% | #2 of 130 | N/A |
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
717
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
+105% since 1990-91, when it was 350
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 17.7:1
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 | 717 | 44.1 | 16.3:1 | 80% (573) |
| 2023-24 | 750 | 46.7 | 16.1:1 | 78% (584) |
| 2022-23 | 757 | 45.6 | 16.6:1 | 86% (649) |
| 2020-21 | 725 | 41 | 17.7:1 | 87% (632) |
| 2017-18 | 393 | 22.1 | 17.8:1 | 84% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 388 | 20 | 19.4:1 | 85% (330) |
| 2010-11 | 464 | 23 | 20.2:1 | 86% (398) |
| 2000-01 | 321 | 16 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 350 | 14 | 25.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quincy Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 82% (393 to 717); teachers up 100% (22.1 to 44.1).
About Quincy Middle School
Quincy Middle School is a middle-grades school in QUINCY, Washington, reachable at (509) 787-4435. The school enrolls 717 students, from grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Washington is about 577, so this school runs 24% larger than that.
Quincy School District is the district for Quincy Middle School. It has 9 schools and 3,162 students.
Quincy Middle School enrolls a student body that is 89% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 9% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Grant County's population at about 44%. Quincy Middle School has a diversity index of 19%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The ratio of students to teachers is 16.3:1, with 44.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. For comparison, middle schools in Washington average 18.9:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 80%. Among public schools in Grant County, the average eligibility rate is 69%.
The allk12 Grade for Quincy Middle School is C. Compared with Washington public middle schools, the school scored higher than 33% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Quincy Middle School is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (26.4% versus 26.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
Across Grant County, median household income is about $73,267, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Quincy Middle School is among the 61 public schools in Grant County.
Nearby, Ancient Lakes Elementary is about 0.2 miles away. Quincy Middle School is one of several public schools in the area, with 7 others within five miles. Quincy Middle School ranks 3rd of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 26.4% against a local average of 25.5%.
The federal government classifies Quincy Middle School's location as Town: Distant.
Quincy Middle School had 725 students in 2020-21 and 717 in 2024-25, nearly the same. Federal data show the ratio falling from 17.7:1 to 16.3:1.
Discussions about Quincy Middle School may include school safety, transportation, and start times. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Grant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
101,799
Census ACS
Median income
$73,267
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
20,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Quincy School District
- Quincy High SchoolHigh · 860 students
- Ancient Lakes ElementaryElementary · 385 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 291 students
- Monument ElementaryElementary · 289 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 280 students
- George ElementaryElementary · 163 students
Other schools in QUINCY
- Quincy High SchoolHigh · 860 students
- Ancient Lakes ElementaryElementary · 385 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 291 students
- Monument ElementaryElementary · 289 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 280 students
- George ElementaryElementary · 163 students
Other Quincy Middle schools
One other US public school is named Quincy Middle. Quincy Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Quincy Middle SchoolQUINCY, MI · 345 students
Nearby schools
- Ancient Lakes Elementary0.2 mi · 385
- Pioneer Elementary0.6 mi · 291
- Mountain View Elementary0.8 mi · 280
- Quincy High School0.9 mi · 860
- Monument Elementary1.7 mi · 289
- Quincy Innovation Academy Big Picture1.8 mi · 24
Frequently asked questions
About Quincy Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Quincy Middle School?
Quincy Middle School enrolls approximately 717 students in grades 06-08.
Is Quincy Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Quincy Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Quincy Middle School have?
Quincy Middle School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Quincy Middle School?
Student demographics at Quincy Middle School are roughly 9% White, 89% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Quincy Middle School in?
Quincy Middle School is part of Quincy School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.