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What's one thing Ridgetop Middle School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
784
Middle
DISTRICT 656 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530108002056
Ridgetop Middle School
10600 HILLSBORO DR, SILVERDALE, WA 98383 · (360) 662-2900 · Kitsap County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL784 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.2:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
301 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 273 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 274 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 237 | 30% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
60.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.9pp since 2014
Math
40.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -27.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 27 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.2% | 40.1% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 39.5% |
| 2022-23 | 59.2% | 43.1% |
| 2021-22 | 56.5% | 39.8% |
| 2018-19 | 62.6% | 56.6% |
| 2017-18 | 69.2% | 58.9% |
| 2016-17 | 64.7% | 62.2% |
| 2015-16 | 62.1% | 63.0% |
| 2014-15 | 61.2% | 67.5% |
% 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
48.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Ridgetop Middle School
Ridgetop Middle School's state test result (48.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgetop Middle School this school | 784 | 38.4% | 48.4% |
| Pacific Middle School Vancouver | 817 | 37.5% | N/A |
| Kalles Junior High Puyallup | 762 | 40.2% | 51.7% |
| North Whidbey Middle School Oak Harbor | 705 | 42.3% | 46.2% |
| Aylen Jr High Puyallup | 720 | 43.9% | 42.9% |
| Tumwater Middle School Tumwater | 665 | 35.6% | 50.0% |
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 Ridgetop Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #101 of 294 | #6 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #134 of 357 ▼ 8 | #6 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #81 of 357 ▲ 44 | #4 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.0pp | #147 of 290 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 784 | #81 of 377 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.1:1 | #272 of 340 | #10 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.2% | #112 of 340 | #3 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.4% | #256 of 359 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.5% | #69 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
784
+168 (+27%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 766
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
was 20.5:1
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 | 784 | 37.1 | 21.1:1 | 38% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 737 | 35.5 | 20.8:1 | 38% (279) |
| 2022-23 | 744 | 34.8 | 21.4:1 | 41% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 616 | 30 | 20.5:1 | 21% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 729 | 35.2 | 20.7:1 | 27% (196) |
| 2015-16 | 437 | 22 | 19.9:1 | 36% (158) |
| 2010-11 | 735 | 34 | 21.6:1 | 23% (170) |
| 2000-01 | 777 | 36 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 766 | 36 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ridgetop Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (729 to 784); teachers up 5% (35.2 to 37.1).
About Ridgetop Middle School
Ridgetop Middle School runs as a mid-sized middle school in SILVERDALE, Washington. In all, 784 students attend the school in grades 6 through 8. It has 36% more students than the average for middle schools in Washington (about 577).
Across its 19 schools, Central Kitsap School District enrolls 11,100 students. Ridgetop Middle School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at Ridgetop Middle School is White: 52%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 6% Asian, and 4% Black. The county population is about 75% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Ridgetop Middle School scores 66%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ridgetop Middle School is 21.1:1, based on 37.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Ridgetop Middle School counts 38% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Kitsap County average a similar 41%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Ridgetop Middle School is 6.1 points below its prediction. Actual: 48.4%. Predicted: 54.5%.
In Kitsap County, the median household earns about $104,158 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Kitsap County has 77 public schools with about 34,233 students, including Ridgetop Middle School.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Silver Ridge Elementary, is the closest to Ridgetop Middle School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Ridgetop Middle School is 5th of 9 on proficiency.
Ridgetop Middle School is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
In 2020-21, Ridgetop Middle School enrolled 616 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 784.
The allk12 page for Ridgetop 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.
Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Central Kitsap School District
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Barker Creek Community SchoolCombined · 551 students
Other schools in SILVERDALE
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Emerald Heights ElementaryElementary · 466 students
- Clear Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Silver Ridge ElementaryElementary · 430 students
Nearby schools
- Silver Ridge Elementary0.1 mi · 430
- Emerald Heights Elementary1.1 mi · 466
- Cottonwood Elementary School1.5 mi · 362
- Central Kitsap Middle School1.5 mi · 564
- Central Kitsap High School1.5 mi · 1,564
- Fairview Middle School1.7 mi · 620
Frequently asked questions
About Ridgetop Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Ridgetop Middle School?
Ridgetop Middle School enrolls approximately 784 students in grades 06-08.
Is Ridgetop Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ridgetop Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Ridgetop Middle School have?
Ridgetop Middle School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.1:1.
How diverse is Ridgetop Middle School?
Ridgetop Middle School reports a student body of 52% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% Black, 6% Asian, 17% Two or more.
Who oversees Ridgetop Middle School?
Ridgetop Middle School is overseen by Central Kitsap School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.