Enrollment
394
Middle
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530618000936
Reeves Middle School
2200 QUINCE ST NE, OLYMPIA, WA 98506 · (360) 596-3400 · Thurston County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL394 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% 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
18.1:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
141 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 133 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 118 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 143 | 36% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
54.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -16.2pp since 2014
Math
43.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 16 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.3% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.1% | 46.3% |
| 2022-23 | 55.4% | 42.2% |
| 2021-22 | 54.7% | 44.5% |
| 2018-19 | 70.8% | 59.9% |
| 2017-18 | 72.8% | 62.4% |
| 2016-17 | 72.2% | 60.0% |
| 2015-16 | 72.3% | 63.0% |
| 2014-15 | 70.5% | 52.5% |
% 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
50.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Reeves Middle School
Reeves Middle School's state test result (50.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reeves Middle School this school | 394 | 35.8% | 50.2% |
| Hidden River Middle School Snohomish | 313 | 35.1% | 48.0% |
| Haller Middle School Arlington | 576 | 37.0% | 38.1% |
| Central Kitsap Middle School SILVERDALE | 564 | 33.0% | 43.8% |
| Stanwood Middle School STANWOOD | 528 | 36.9% | 34.5% |
| Key Peninsula Middle School Lakebay | 444 | 41.9% | 40.1% |
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 Reeves Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Thurston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #92 of 294 | #4 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #116 of 357 ▼ 28 | #7 of 16 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #125 of 357 ▼ 16 | #6 of 16 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #69 of 290 | #1 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 394 | #292 of 377 | #13 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #106 of 340 | #5 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.4% | #212 of 340 | #13 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.8% | #266 of 359 | #13 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.3% | #102 of 192 | #2 of 10 |
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
394
-17 (-4%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 364
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 18.7:1
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 | 394 | 21.7 | 18.1:1 | 36% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 389 | 21.9 | 17.8:1 | 38% (146) |
| 2022-23 | 392 | 22.7 | 17.3:1 | 39% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 411 | 22 | 18.7:1 | 34% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 439 | 24.3 | 18.1:1 | 33% (147) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 21 | 19.6:1 | 37% (151) |
| 2010-11 | 427 | 22 | 19.4:1 | 31% (133) |
| 2000-01 | 462 | 26 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 364 | 20 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Reeves Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (439 to 394); teachers down 11% (24.3 to 21.7).
About Reeves Middle School
Among the schools in OLYMPIA, Washington, is Reeves Middle School, a low-enrollment middle school. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 394 students enrolled. By comparison, middle schools in Washington enroll about 577 students on average.
Olympia School District, which runs Reeves Middle School, has 20 schools and 9,386 students.
More than half of the students at Reeves Middle School are White (63%). Next come 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Asian, and 2% Black. That compares with about 72% White among all Thurston County residents. The diversity index for Reeves Middle School is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Reeves Middle School reports a ratio of 18.1 students per teacher, from 21.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Reeves Middle School, 36% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Reeves Middle School lands at B-, ahead of 54% of Washington public middle schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 56.2% for Reeves Middle School. The school posts 50.2%, 6.0 points below the prediction.
The school's county is Thurston County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $96,563, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 86 public schools in the county, enrolling about 44,412, Reeves Middle School among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Touchstone, is about 0.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Reeves Middle School ranks 3rd in a group of 6 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's enrollment fell 4% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Reeves Middle School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Thurston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
299,067
Census ACS
Median income
$96,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
44,412 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olympia School District
- Olympia High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Capital High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Thurgood Marshall Middle SchoolMiddle · 469 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
- Centennial ElementaryElementary · 434 students
Other schools in OLYMPIA
- Olympia High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Capital High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Griffin SchoolElementary · 585 students
- East Olympia ElementaryElementary · 579 students
- Thurgood Marshall Middle SchoolMiddle · 469 students
Nearby schools
- Touchstone0.3 mi · 2
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.6 mi · 340
- Madison Elementary School1.4 mi · 203
- Avanti High School1.4 mi · 167
- Leland P Brown Elementary1.7 mi · 328
- Garfield Elementary School1.8 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About Reeves Middle SchoolHow many students attend Reeves Middle School?
Reeves Middle School enrolls approximately 394 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Reeves Middle School serve?
Reeves Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Reeves Middle School?
Approximately 18.1:1 students per teacher at Reeves Middle School.
How diverse is Reeves Middle School?
Reeves Middle School reports a student body of 63% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Reeves Middle School in?
Reeves Middle School is part of Olympia School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.