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Enrollment
907
Middle
DISTRICT 937 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030002434
Rainier Middle School
30620 116TH AVE SE, AUBURN, WA 98092 · (253) 931-4843 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL907 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
550 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 322 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 310 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 275 | 30% |
Student demographics
78%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
34.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -28.4pp since 2014
Math
24.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -34.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 28 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 34 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.4% | 24.2% |
| 2023-24 | 33.6% | 21.4% |
| 2022-23 | 39.7% | 23.4% |
| 2021-22 | 38.8% | 26.1% |
| 2018-19 | 53.3% | 40.5% |
| 2017-18 | 57.0% | 45.2% |
| 2016-17 | 57.9% | 51.1% |
| 2015-16 | 60.4% | 49.9% |
| 2014-15 | 62.8% | 58.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Rainier Middle School
Rainier Middle School's state test result (27.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainier Middle School this school | 907 | 60.6% | 27.4% |
| Nelsen Middle School Renton | 913 | 58.5% | 33.1% |
| Eisenhower Middle School Everett | 914 | 55.4% | 51.4% |
| Meeker Middle School Renton | 779 | 58.8% | 34.6% |
| Alderwood Middle School LYNNWOOD | 679 | 54.8% | 39.0% |
| Cascade Middle School AUBURN | 966 | 65.2% | 27.9% |
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 Rainier Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #241 of 294 | #65 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.2% | #265 of 357 ▲ 10 | #62 of 76 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #281 of 357 ▲ 2 | #64 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #38 of 290 | #12 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 907 | #30 of 377 | #18 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #69 of 340 | #8 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.8% | #19 of 340 | #12 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.6% | #110 of 359 | #18 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.3% | #170 of 192 | #32 of 37 |
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
907
-96 (-10%) vs 2020
+9% since 2000-01, when it was 833
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 18.6:1
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 | 907 | 51.9 | 17.5:1 | 61% (550) |
| 2023-24 | 944 | 53.9 | 17.5:1 | 63% (593) |
| 2022-23 | 941 | 53.4 | 17.6:1 | 65% (614) |
| 2020-21 | 1,003 | 54 | 18.6:1 | 56% (559) |
| 2017-18 | 928 | 46.9 | 19.8:1 | 49% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 904 | 42 | 21.5:1 | 49% (445) |
| 2010-11 | 859 | 39 | 22.0:1 | 28% (240) |
| 2000-01 | 833 | 39 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rainier Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (928 to 907); teachers up 11% (46.9 to 51.9).
About Rainier Middle School
Rainier Middle School is a large middle-grades school in AUBURN, Washington. The school has 907 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Washington average about 577 students, which makes this school 57% larger than average.
The district for Rainier Middle School is Auburn School District, with 26 schools and 18,174 students.
White students account for 31% of enrollment at Rainier Middle School, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 25% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 9% multiracial. County-wide, 55% of King County residents are White. The diversity index for Rainier Middle School is 78%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 51.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 17.5 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Washington, 18.9:1, is higher. Rainier Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 61%. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Rainier Middle School is among the bottom 10% of schools in Washington. Predicted: 39.5%. Actual: 27.4%.
The county, King County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. The county's public schools total 544, with about 278,492 students.
Rainier Middle School's nearest public school is Hazelwood Elementary School (about 0.1 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Rainier Middle School is 8th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Rainier Middle School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 907, compared with 1,003 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 18.6 in 2020-21 to 17.5 in 2024-25.
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King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Other Rainier Middle schools
One other US public school is named Rainier Middle. Rainier Middle School is the largest of the 2.
- Rainier Middle SchoolRainier, WA · 241 students
Nearby schools
- Hazelwood Elementary School0.1 mi · 502
- Lea Hill Elementary School0.5 mi · 593
- Willow Crest Elementary0.8 mi · 656
- Auburn Mountainview High School1.2 mi · 1,560
- Arthur Jacobsen Elementary1.2 mi · 367
- Cascade Middle School1.4 mi · 966
Frequently asked questions
About Rainier Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Rainier Middle School?
Rainier Middle School enrolls approximately 907 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Rainier Middle School serve?
Rainier Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Rainier Middle School?
Approximately 17.5:1 students per teacher at Rainier Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Rainier Middle School?
Student demographics at Rainier Middle School are roughly 31% White, 22% Hispanic, 10% Black, 25% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Rainier Middle School in?
Rainier Middle School is part of Auburn School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.