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Enrollment
651
Middle
DISTRICT 577 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TUKWILA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530813001342
Showalter Middle School
4628 S 144TH ST, SEATTLE, WA 98168 · (206) 901-7800 · King County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL651 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% 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.
- C+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
20.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.0:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
491 students
DISTRICT 77% · 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 | 235 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 202 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 214 | 33% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
School pathway
Based on grade levels within Tukwila School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
25.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -18.2pp since 2014
Math
17.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 18 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.8% | 17.9% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 15.0% |
| 2022-23 | 25.7% | 15.4% |
| 2021-22 | 24.5% | 14.3% |
| 2018-19 | 36.1% | 27.6% |
| 2017-18 | 41.2% | 32.9% |
| 2016-17 | 39.6% | 34.1% |
| 2015-16 | 45.2% | 37.5% |
| 2014-15 | 44.0% | 31.6% |
% 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
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Showalter Middle School
Showalter Middle School's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Showalter Middle School this school | 651 | 75.4% | 23.0% |
| Pacific Middle School Des Moines | 604 | 74.3% | 20.4% |
| Evergreen Middle School KENT | 810 | 79.5% | 18.1% |
| Chinook Middle School SeaTac | 620 | 72.9% | 22.9% |
| Mill Creek Middle School Kent | 866 | 73.0% | 12.1% |
| 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 Showalter Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #261 of 294 | #68 of 76 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #307 of 357 ▲ 17 | #66 of 76 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #326 of 357 ▼ 4 | #72 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #137 of 290 | #38 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 651 | #165 of 377 | #52 of 80 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #242 of 340 | #49 of 76 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.1% | #39 of 340 | #24 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.4% | #40 of 359 | #6 of 77 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.5% | #98 of 130 | #27 of 33 |
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
651
+43 (+7%) vs 2020
+68% since 1990-91, when it was 387
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 651 | 31.9 | 20.4:1 | 75% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 600 | 33.8 | 17.7:1 | 85% (510) |
| 2022-23 | 574 | 35.8 | 16.0:1 | 81% (465) |
| 2020-21 | 608 | 36 | 16.9:1 | 75% (456) |
| 2017-18 | 629 | 35.8 | 17.6:1 | 71% (445) |
| 2015-16 | 684 | 40 | 17.1:1 | 78% (535) |
| 2010-11 | 661 | 34 | 19.4:1 | 75% (499) |
| 2000-01 | 625 | 32 | 19.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 387 | 19 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Showalter Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (629 to 651); teachers down 11% (35.8 to 31.9).
About Showalter Middle School
Showalter Middle School, a mid-sized middle school, is located in SEATTLE, Washington. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 651 students.
Showalter Middle School is run by Tukwila School District, whose 5 schools enroll 2,886 students.
The student body at Showalter Middle School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 37%. The next largest groups are 25% Asian, 19% Black, 8% White, and 6% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 26 points above the 11% share among King County residents. A diversity index of 75% means there is a 75% chance two randomly chosen students at Showalter Middle School are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Showalter Middle School is 20.4:1, based on 31.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Showalter Middle School counts 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in King County is 38%.
On the allk12 Grade, Showalter Middle School lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Washington public middle schools.
Showalter Middle School is 6.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (23.0% versus 29.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
American Community Survey estimates for King County show that the median household earns about $124,746 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. King County has 544 public schools with about 278,492 students, including Showalter Middle School.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Foster Senior High School, is about 0.2 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Showalter Middle School is 6th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Showalter Middle School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools 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 651, compared with 608 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 16.9 in 2020-21 to 20.4 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 Tukwila School District
- Foster Senior High SchoolHigh · 910 students
- Cascade View ElementaryElementary · 481 students
- Tukwila ElementaryElementary · 458 students
- Thorndyke ElementaryElementary · 386 students
- Gateway to CollegeHigh
- Renton Technical CollegeHigh
Other schools in SEATTLE
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,770 students
- Ballard High SchoolHigh · 1,697 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 1,542 students
- Garfield High SchoolHigh · 1,507 students
- West Seattle High SchoolHigh · 1,479 students
- Ingraham High SchoolHigh · 1,391 students
Nearby schools
- Foster Senior High School0.2 mi · 910
- Thorndyke Elementary0.5 mi · 386
- Impact Public Schools0.7 mi · 505
- Tukwila Elementary0.8 mi · 458
- Cascade View Elementary1.0 mi · 481
- Glacier Middle School1.2 mi · 803
Frequently asked questions
About Showalter Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Showalter Middle School?
Showalter Middle School enrolls approximately 651 students in grades 06-08.
Is Showalter Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Showalter Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Showalter Middle School have?
Showalter Middle School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Showalter Middle School?
Student demographics at Showalter Middle School are roughly 8% White, 37% Hispanic, 19% Black, 25% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Showalter Middle School?
Showalter Middle School is overseen by Tukwila School District in King County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.