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What's something Sacajawea Middle School does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
668
Middle
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282000448
Sacajawea Middle School
1101 S DASH POINT RD, FEDERAL WAY, WA 98003 · (253) 945-4900 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL668 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
18.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
519 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 214 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 216 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 238 | 36% |
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
34.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -17.1pp since 2014
Math
19.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -16.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 17 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 17 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.7% | 19.9% |
| 2023-24 | 33.9% | 19.4% |
| 2022-23 | 31.2% | 18.3% |
| 2021-22 | 33.2% | 18.0% |
| 2018-19 | 43.2% | 28.8% |
| 2017-18 | 47.8% | 34.5% |
| 2016-17 | 47.4% | 35.5% |
| 2015-16 | 52.7% | 39.7% |
| 2014-15 | 51.8% | 36.6% |
% 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
28.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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 Sacajawea Middle School
Sacajawea Middle School's state test result (28.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacajawea Middle School this school | 668 | 77.7% | 28.6% |
| First Creek Middle School Tacoma | 584 | 78.1% | 20.2% |
| Pacific Middle School Des Moines | 604 | 74.3% | 20.4% |
| Evergreen Middle School KENT | 810 | 79.5% | 18.1% |
| Kilo Middle School AUBURN | 669 | 73.7% | 31.1% |
| Sequoyah Middle School Auburn | 570 | 76.3% | 21.2% |
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 Sacajawea Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #234 of 294 | #62 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #286 of 357 ▲ 9 | #65 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.7% | #279 of 357 ▲ 1 | #63 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #158 of 290 | #46 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 668 | #151 of 377 | #48 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #113 of 340 | #16 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.4% | #22 of 340 | #14 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.7% | #31 of 359 | #2 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #64 of 192 | #15 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
668
-82 (-11%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 743
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 18.8:1
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 | 668 | 36.5 | 18.3:1 | 78% (519) |
| 2023-24 | 652 | 37.6 | 17.3:1 | 80% (520) |
| 2022-23 | 684 | 35.8 | 19.1:1 | 82% (559) |
| 2020-21 | 750 | 40 | 18.8:1 | 75% (564) |
| 2017-18 | 790 | 43 | 18.4:1 | 65% (513) |
| 2015-16 | 735 | 40 | 18.4:1 | 64% (471) |
| 2010-11 | 720 | 40 | 18.0:1 | 42% (305) |
| 2000-01 | 840 | 41 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 743 | 36 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sacajawea Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (790 to 668); teachers down 15% (43 to 36.5).
About Sacajawea Middle School
Sacajawea Middle School sits in FEDERAL WAY, Washington, and is classified as a middle school. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 668 students in 2024-25.
Sacajawea Middle School reports to Federal Way School District, which has 43 schools and 22,250 students.
The student body at Sacajawea Middle School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 38%. Enrollment also includes 15% Black, 15% White, 14% Asian, and 12% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 27 points above the 11% share among King County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 77%.
A staff of 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.3:1. The ratio is within a point of the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 78%. Among public schools in King County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
Sacajawea Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 44% of Washington public middle schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 28.6%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 28.1%.
For the population of King County, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Sacajawea Middle School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
Federal Way High School is the nearest public school to Sacajawea Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Sacajawea Middle School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Sacajawea Middle School as Suburb: Large.
An 11% decline took enrollment from 750 in 2020-21 to 668 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 Federal Way School District
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Evergreen Middle SchoolMiddle · 810 students
- Kilo Middle SchoolMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in FEDERAL WAY
- Federal Way High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Todd Beamer High SchoolHigh · 1,412 students
- Decatur High SchoolHigh · 1,352 students
- Illahee Middle SchoolMiddle · 655 students
- Lakota Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Wildwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 598 students
Other Sacajawea Middle schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sacajawea Middle. Sacajawea Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolSpokane, WA · 855 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolBozeman, MT · 807 students
- SACAJAWEA MIDDLE SCHOOLLEWISTON, ID · 547 students
Nearby schools
- Federal Way High School0.5 mi · 1,665
- Nautilus K-8 School0.6 mi · 469
- Wildwood Elementary School0.8 mi · 598
- Mirror Lake Elementary School1.1 mi · 491
- Lake Grove Elementary School1.1 mi · 390
- Career Academy at Truman High School1.4 mi · 83
Frequently asked questions
About Sacajawea Middle SchoolHow large is Sacajawea Middle School?
Sacajawea Middle School enrolls approximately 668 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Sacajawea Middle School serve?
Sacajawea Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Sacajawea Middle School have?
Sacajawea Middle School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Sacajawea Middle School?
Student demographics at Sacajawea Middle School are roughly 15% White, 38% Hispanic, 15% Black, 14% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Sacajawea Middle School in?
Sacajawea Middle School is part of Federal Way School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.