Shaw Middle School

Set in Spokane, Washington, Shaw Middle School is an average-sized 6-8 campus, operated by Spokane School District. It caters to 693 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Shaw Middle School sits 20% bigger than that benchmark.

Shaw Middle School is one of 62 schools operated by Spokane School District, a district that enrolls 28,853 students overall.

On demographics, Shaw Middle School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander, 4% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Roughly 79% of students at Shaw Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Spokane County's rate of about 52%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shaw Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 27.1%; Shaw Middle School posts 16.4%, -10.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Spokane County shows median household income runs about $78,582, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Spokane County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students), of which Shaw Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alternative Northeast Community Center Preschool, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Shaw Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 21%: 573 students in 2018 compared to 693 in 2025.

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