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Enrollment
570
Middle
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FEDERAL WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530282002964
Sequoyah Middle School
3425 S 360th ST, Auburn, WA 98001 · (253) 945-3670 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL570 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Washington public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
18.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
435 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 | 182 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 191 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 197 | 35% |
Student demographics
80%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
27.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -26.4pp since 2014
Math
15.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -16.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 26 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 | 27.8% | 15.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.6% | 15.9% |
| 2022-23 | 25.9% | 14.7% |
| 2021-22 | 34.2% | 14.5% |
| 2018-19 | 40.8% | 30.0% |
| 2017-18 | 44.6% | 26.0% |
| 2016-17 | 44.0% | 26.8% |
| 2015-16 | 47.0% | 26.9% |
| 2014-15 | 54.3% | 32.3% |
% 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
21.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Sequoyah Middle School
Sequoyah Middle School's state test result (21.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sequoyah Middle School this school | 570 | 76.3% | 21.2% |
| Kilo Middle School AUBURN | 669 | 73.7% | 31.1% |
| Sacajawea Middle School FEDERAL WAY | 668 | 77.7% | 28.6% |
| Baker Middle School Tacoma | 687 | 71.5% | 29.0% |
| Pacific Middle School Des Moines | 604 | 74.3% | 20.4% |
| First Creek Middle School Tacoma | 584 | 78.1% | 20.2% |
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 Sequoyah Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.2% | #269 of 294 | #71 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.6% | #324 of 357 ▼ 8 | #71 of 76 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.8% | #317 of 357 ▼ 1 | #71 of 76 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #43 of 290 | #14 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 570 | #210 of 377 | #65 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #118 of 340 | #18 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 80.1% | #4 of 340 | #2 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.3% | #36 of 359 | #4 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.4% | #181 of 192 | #35 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
570
-29 (-5%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 593
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
was 20.0:1
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 | 570 | 30.9 | 18.4:1 | 76% (435) |
| 2023-24 | 534 | 31.2 | 17.1:1 | 81% (433) |
| 2022-23 | 535 | 29.1 | 18.4:1 | 81% (435) |
| 2020-21 | 599 | 30 | 20.0:1 | 74% (442) |
| 2017-18 | 578 | 30.9 | 18.7:1 | 69% (399) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 31 | 20.6:1 | 64% (407) |
| 2010-11 | 593 | 33 | 18.0:1 | 44% (259) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sequoyah Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (578 to 570); teachers unchanged (30.9 to 30.9).
About Sequoyah Middle School
A mid-sized middle school in Auburn, Washington, Sequoyah Middle School is part of Federal Way School District. It had 570 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8.
Federal Way School District counts 43 schools and 22,250 students, including Sequoyah Middle School.
The student body at Sequoyah Middle School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 28%. Next come 25% White, 16% Asian, 14% Black, and 9% multiracial. The county population is about 11% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 80%.
There are 30.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 18.4:1. The ratio is within a point of the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Of all students at Sequoyah Middle School, 76% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in King County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Sequoyah Middle School lands at D, ahead of 7% of Washington public middle schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Sequoyah Middle School would score about 29.0%. It scores 21.2%, 7.8 points below that figure.
In the wider King County area, the median household earns about $124,746 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across King County, 544 public schools serve about 278,492 students.
Measured in a straight line, Lakeland Elementary School is about 0.3 miles from Sequoyah Middle School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 21.2% average proficiency ranks 8th among 8 nearby schools.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 570, compared with 599 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 18.4:1, from 20.0:1.
The Sequoyah Middle School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 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 Sequoyah Middle schools
5 other US public schools in 3 states are named Sequoyah Middle. Sequoyah Middle School is the 5th largest of the 6.
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolAtlanta, GA · 1,713 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolEdmond, OK · 1,053 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolRiverdale, GA · 765 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolBroken Arrow, OK · 642 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolClaremore, OK · 284 students
Nearby schools
- Lakeland Elementary School0.3 mi · 418
- Rainier View Elementary School0.6 mi · 495
- Todd Beamer High School1.3 mi · 1,412
- Federal Way Public Academy1.8 mi · 309
- Alpac Elementary School1.9 mi · 534
- Hedden Elementary School1.9 mi · 469
Frequently asked questions
About Sequoyah Middle SchoolHow many students attend Sequoyah Middle School?
Sequoyah Middle School enrolls approximately 570 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Sequoyah Middle School serve?
Sequoyah Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Sequoyah Middle School?
Approximately 18.4:1 students per teacher at Sequoyah Middle School.
How diverse is Sequoyah Middle School?
Sequoyah Middle School reports a student body of 25% White, 28% Hispanic, 14% Black, 16% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Sequoyah Middle School?
Sequoyah Middle School is overseen by Federal Way School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.