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Quincy Middle 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 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Quincy Middle School
Located at 16 Sixth Ave SE, in QUINCY, Washington, Quincy Middle School is an average-sized middle-grades school that instructs 717 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Quincy School District. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 24% bigger than typical.
Across the 9 schools in Quincy School District (3,162 students total), Quincy Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Quincy Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%); the rest comes out to 9% White. By comparison, Grant County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Quincy Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.4%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Grant County put the typical household earns roughly $73,267 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Quincy Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).
Nearest neighbor: Ancient Lakes Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Quincy Middle School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Quincy Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 25.5%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Quincy Middle School has ticked up 82%, going from 393 students in 2018 to 717 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.
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Related schools
- 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
- 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
- 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