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Stevens Middle School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stevens Middle School
Set in PASCO, Washington, Stevens Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school, one of the schools within Pasco School District. It serves 956 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 66% above the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 577 students.
Pasco School District comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 18,913 students; Stevens Middle School is among them.
On demographics, Stevens Middle School lists that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.8:1. The state averages about 18.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 92% of students at Stevens Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stevens Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.6%; this one delivers 16.7%.
Around the school, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,714 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Stevens Middle School is one of 43 public schools in Franklin County (combined enrollment of about 21,403 students).
Nearest neighbor: Rowena Chess Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stevens Middle School. On composite proficiency, Stevens Middle School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 15.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stevens Middle School has ticked up 34%, going from 713 students in 2018 to 956 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 90% to 94%. Class-load math has widened: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.
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