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What tradition at Shaw Middle School should never be changed?
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Enrollment
693
Middle
DISTRICT 644 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530825001408
Shaw Middle School
4106 N Cook St, Spokane, WA 99207 · (509) 354-5800 · Spokane County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL693 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
549 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 233 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 233 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 227 | 33% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
22.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.8pp since 2014
Math
15.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -11.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.0% | 15.3% |
| 2023-24 | 18.2% | 11.7% |
| 2022-23 | 22.4% | 15.0% |
| 2021-22 | 30.4% | 14.4% |
| 2018-19 | 27.6% | 19.1% |
| 2017-18 | 31.1% | 28.5% |
| 2016-17 | 34.5% | 26.6% |
| 2015-16 | 31.9% | 25.7% |
| 2014-15 | 35.8% | 26.6% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 27% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Shaw Middle School
Shaw Middle School's state test result (16.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaw Middle School this school | 693 | 79.2% | 16.4% |
| Denny Yasuhara Middle School Spokane | 596 | 83.7% | 17.4% |
| Glover Middle School Spokane | 537 | 73.0% | 25.6% |
| North Pines Middle School Spokane Valley | 504 | 74.2% | 27.6% |
| Monticello Middle School Longview | 525 | 73.1% | N/A |
| Garry Middle School Spokane | 410 | 82.0% | 26.2% |
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 Shaw Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.4% | #286 of 294 | #26 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #326 of 357 ▲ 15 | #25 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #341 of 357 ▲ 10 | #26 of 26 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.7pp | #32 of 290 | #4 of 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 693 | #134 of 377 | #6 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #18 of 340 | #4 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #123 of 340 | #3 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.2% | #28 of 359 | #3 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +20.9% | #23 of 130 | #2 of 9 |
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
693
+132 (+24%) vs 2020
+11% since 1990-91, when it was 627
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 693 | 45.7 | 15.2:1 | 79% (549) |
| 2023-24 | 669 | 48.4 | 13.8:1 | 84% (562) |
| 2022-23 | 764 | 54.4 | 14.0:1 | 88% (674) |
| 2020-21 | 561 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 84% (472) |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 37.3 | 15.4:1 | 89% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 591 | 38 | 15.6:1 | 87% (517) |
| 2010-11 | 624 | 39 | 16.0:1 | 82% (510) |
| 2000-01 | 685 | 42 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 627 | 31 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shaw Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 21% (573 to 693); teachers up 22% (37.3 to 45.7).
About Shaw Middle School
Shaw Middle School is a middle-grades school in Spokane, Washington, and it is part of Spokane School District. Enrollment stands at 693 students, covering grades 6 through 8. It has 20% more students than the average for middle schools in Washington (about 577).
In Spokane School District, 62 schools enroll a combined 28,853 students.
White students are 56% of those enrolled at Shaw Middle School. Other reported shares: 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 6% Pacific Islander, and 4% Black. That compares with about 83% White among all Spokane County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 64%.
Staffing at Shaw Middle School comes to 45.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2:1. Middle schools in Washington average 18.9:1, 3.7 more students per teacher than here. Shaw Middle School counts 79% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Spokane County average 52%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Shaw Middle School would score about 27.1%. It scores 16.4%, a bottom-10% result among Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Spokane County, the median household earns about $78,582 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Shaw Middle School, Spokane County has 187 public schools.
Alternative Northeast Community Center Preschool is the nearest public school to Shaw Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 32.7%, higher than Shaw Middle School's 16.4%.
Shaw Middle School is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 693, from 561 in 2020-21.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spokane School District
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other schools in Spokane
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Nearby schools
- Alternative Northeast Community Center Preschool0.1 mi · 37
- On Track Academy0.1 mi · 442
- Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center0.2 mi · 20
- Regal Elementary0.2 mi · 381
- Bemiss Elementary0.4 mi · 368
- Rogers High School0.7 mi · 1,498
Frequently asked questions
About Shaw Middle SchoolHow large is Shaw Middle School?
Shaw Middle School enrolls approximately 693 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Shaw Middle School serve?
Shaw Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Shaw Middle School?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Shaw Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Shaw Middle School?
Student demographics at Shaw Middle School are roughly 56% White, 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is Shaw Middle School public or private?
Shaw Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Spokane School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.