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Enrollment
549
Middle
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUNNYSIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530867003037
Sierra Vista Middle School
916 N. 16 Street, Sunnyside, WA 98944 · (509) 836-4157 · Yakima County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL549 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% 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.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-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
18.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.6:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
499 students
DISTRICT 87% · 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 | 179 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 186 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 184 | 34% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 13% · 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
26.4%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.1pp since 2014
Math
10.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -8.3pp 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 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.4% | 10.8% |
| 2023-24 | 25.9% | 10.3% |
| 2022-23 | 25.4% | 12.3% |
| 2021-22 | 27.5% | 12.0% |
| 2018-19 | 39.6% | 36.5% |
| 2017-18 | 47.6% | 41.1% |
| 2016-17 | 38.4% | 34.0% |
| 2015-16 | 26.6% | 20.4% |
| 2014-15 | 25.3% | 19.1% |
% 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
18.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Sierra Vista Middle School
Sierra Vista Middle School's state test result (18.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Vista Middle School this school | 549 | 90.9% | 18.0% |
| Wahluke Junior High Mattawa | 554 | 94.9% | 21.6% |
| Granger Middle School Granger | 425 | 92.7% | 23.4% |
| Toppenish Middle School TOPPENISH | 757 | 89.7% | 19.4% |
| Lewis & Clark Middle School Yakima | 815 | 90.2% | 22.5% |
| Washington Middle School Yakima | 748 | 96.0% | 17.9% |
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 Sierra Vista Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #280 of 294 | #14 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.8% | #345 of 357 ▲ 4 | #15 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #325 of 357 ▲ 3 | #13 of 17 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.2pp | #64 of 290 | #7 of 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 549 | #224 of 377 | #12 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #154 of 340 | #11 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.1% | #337 of 340 | #15 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.9% | #8 of 359 | #4 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.1% | #31 of 192 | #1 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
549
-199 (-27%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 20.2:1
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 | 549 | 29 | 18.9:1 | 91% (499) |
| 2023-24 | 586 | 31 | 18.9:1 | 84% (491) |
| 2022-23 | 624 | 34 | 18.4:1 | 84% (524) |
| 2020-21 | 748 | 37 | 20.2:1 | 78% (583) |
| 2017-18 | 705 | 34 | 20.7:1 | 87% (611) |
| 2015-16 | 674 | 34 | 19.8:1 | 89% (601) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | 34 | 20.2:1 | 100% (684) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sierra Vista Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (705 to 549); teachers down 15% (34 to 29).
About Sierra Vista Middle School
Sierra Vista Middle School is a mid-sized middle school based in Sunnyside, Washington. It enrolls 549 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 6 through 8.
Sunnyside School District is the district for Sierra Vista Middle School. It has 9 schools and 6,151 students.
Roughly 94% of students at Sierra Vista Middle School are Hispanic. Other groups include 5% White. By comparison, Yakima County residents are about 52% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Sierra Vista Middle School scores 11%.
Its ratio of 18.9:1 is based on 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 91%. On average, public schools in Yakima County report 77%.
Sierra Vista Middle School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of Washington public middle schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Sierra Vista Middle School is 1.3 points below its prediction. Actual: 18.0%. Predicted: 19.2%.
Census data for Yakima County show median household income comes to about $70,656, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 19%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. There are 119 public schools in the county, enrolling about 52,145, Sierra Vista Middle School among them.
A public school about 0.2 miles away, Sun Valley Elementary School, is the closest to Sierra Vista Middle School. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Sierra Vista Middle School. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Sierra Vista Middle School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
Sierra Vista Middle School is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, a location NCES labels Town: Distant.
A 27% decline took enrollment from 748 in 2020-21 to 549 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.9:1) than in 2020-21 (20.2:1).
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Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sunnyside School District
- Sunnyside High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- Harrison Middle SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Chief Kamiakin Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Sun Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
Other schools in Sunnyside
- Sunnyside High SchoolHigh · 2,122 students
- Harrison Middle SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 602 students
- Chief Kamiakin Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Sun Valley Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
Other Sierra Vista Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 2 states are named Sierra Vista Middle. Sierra Vista Middle School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Sierra Vista MiddleIrvine, CA · 1,282 students
- Sierra Vista MiddleCovina, CA · 778 students
- Sierra Vista MiddleBaldwin Park, CA · 709 students
- Sierra Vista MiddleLa Puente, CA · 270 students
Nearby schools
- Sun Valley Elementary School0.2 mi · 474
- SHS Graduation Alliance0.9 mi · 4
- Sunnyside High School0.9 mi · 2,122
- Harrison Middle School1.1 mi · 820
- Chief Kamiakin Elementary School1.2 mi · 575
- Washington Elementary1.4 mi · 602
Frequently asked questions
About Sierra Vista Middle SchoolHow many students attend Sierra Vista Middle School?
Sierra Vista Middle School enrolls approximately 549 students in grades 06-08.
Is Sierra Vista Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sierra Vista Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Sierra Vista Middle School?
Approximately 18.9:1 students per teacher at Sierra Vista Middle School.
How diverse is Sierra Vista Middle School?
Sierra Vista Middle School reports a student body of 5% White, 94% Hispanic, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Sierra Vista Middle School?
Sierra Vista Middle School is overseen by Sunnyside School District in Yakima County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.