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Enrollment
456
Middle
DISTRICT 468 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530033002734
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate
9343 NE Sportsman Club Rd, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 · (206) 780-6500 · Kitsap County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL456 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Washington public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
18.5:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
62 students
DISTRICT 14% · 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 5 | 223 | 49% |
| Grade 6 | 233 | 51% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate→Woodward Middle School
Based on grade levels within Bainbridge Island School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
86.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +13.4pp since 2014
Math
80.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +13.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.0% | 80.8% |
| 2023-24 | 86.2% | 79.1% |
| 2022-23 | 88.5% | 77.8% |
| 2021-22 | 82.0% | 74.1% |
| 2018-19 | 83.7% | 76.7% |
| 2017-18 | 85.6% | 78.3% |
| 2016-17 | 84.5% | 78.5% |
| 2015-16 | 83.1% | 76.7% |
| 2014-15 | 72.6% | 67.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
83.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 71% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 13 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Sonoji Sakai Intermediate
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate's state test result (83.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonoji Sakai Intermediate this school | 456 | 13.6% | 83.6% |
| Woodward Middle School Bainbridge Island | 479 | 12.3% | 76.8% |
| Kopachuck Middle School Gig Harbor | 516 | 17.1% | 66.4% |
| Twin Falls Middle School North Bend | 556 | 16.7% | 64.5% |
| Harbor Ridge Middle School Gig Harbor | 627 | 18.5% | 59.9% |
| Whitman Middle School SEATTLE | 633 | 17.1% | 70.6% |
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 Sonoji Sakai Intermediate ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #1 of 294 | #1 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.8% | #4 of 357 ▼ 1 | #1 of 11 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #1 of 357 no change | #1 of 11 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.4pp | #70 of 290 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 456 | #271 of 377 | #10 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.5:1 | #125 of 340 | #5 of 11 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.3% | #264 of 340 | #10 of 11 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.6% | #344 of 359 | #10 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.5% | #87 of 192 | #4 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
456
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
-27% since 2000-01, when it was 627
Student : Teacher
18.5:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 456 | 24.6 | 18.5:1 | 14% (62) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 26.4 | 17.4:1 | 10% (47) |
| 2022-23 | 437 | 25.5 | 17.1:1 | 8% (37) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 27 | 16.5:1 | 7% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 521 | 29.1 | 17.9:1 | 6% (32) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 30 | 19.5:1 | 11% (63) |
| 2010-11 | 511 | 27 | 18.9:1 | 8% (43) |
| 2000-01 | 627 | 30 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sonoji Sakai Intermediate.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (521 to 456); teachers down 15% (29.1 to 24.6).
About Sonoji Sakai Intermediate
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate runs as a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Students in grades 5 through 6 attend the school, which enrolls 456 students. The average among middle schools in Washington is roughly 577 students; this school is 21% smaller than that.
Bainbridge Island School District has 10 schools and 3,514 students, and Sonoji Sakai Intermediate is one of those schools.
White students account for 71% of enrollment at Sonoji Sakai Intermediate. Other groups make up 15% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Sonoji Sakai Intermediate belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 45%.
Teachers at the school number 24.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 18.5:1. Middle schools in Washington average about 18.9:1, a similar figure. The school's lunch program data list 14% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 41% for public schools in Kitsap County.
The allk12 Grade for Sonoji Sakai Intermediate is A+. Compared with Washington public middle schools, the school scored higher than 99% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Sonoji Sakai Intermediate is 71.1%. It actually posts 83.6%, which is 12.5 points higher and in the top 10% of Washington schools.
Across Kitsap County, median household income is about $104,158, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The public schools of Kitsap County number 77 and enroll about 34,233.
The next-closest public school is Woodward Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Sonoji Sakai Intermediate at 1st of 6.
Locale data from NCES put Sonoji Sakai Intermediate in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000 (Suburb: Mid-size).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 456, starting from 446. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.5:1 in 2020-21, and 18.5:1 in 2024-25.
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Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bainbridge Island School District
- Bainbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Woodward Middle SchoolMiddle · 479 students
- Capt Johnston Blakely Elem SchElementary · 356 students
- Halilts Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Ordway ElementaryElementary · 320 students
- Odyssey Multiage ProgramElementary · 177 students
Other schools in Bainbridge Island
- Bainbridge High SchoolHigh · 1,208 students
- Woodward Middle SchoolMiddle · 479 students
- Capt Johnston Blakely Elem SchElementary · 356 students
- Halilts Elementary SchoolElementary · 353 students
- Ordway ElementaryElementary · 320 students
- Odyssey Multiage ProgramElementary · 177 students
Nearby schools
- Woodward Middle School0.2 mi · 479
- Ordway Elementary0.6 mi · 320
- Bainbridge Special Education Services0.7 mi · 27
- Bainbridge High School0.7 mi · 1,208
- Mosaic Home Education Partnership0.9 mi · 57
- Odyssey Multiage Program0.9 mi · 177
Frequently asked questions
About Sonoji Sakai IntermediateHow many students attend Sonoji Sakai Intermediate?
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate enrolls approximately 456 students in grades 05-06.
What age range does Sonoji Sakai Intermediate serve?
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate serves students from grade 05 through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Sonoji Sakai Intermediate?
Approximately 18.5:1 students per teacher at Sonoji Sakai Intermediate.
How diverse is Sonoji Sakai Intermediate?
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate reports a student body of 71% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Sonoji Sakai Intermediate?
Sonoji Sakai Intermediate is overseen by Bainbridge Island School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.