Tenino Middle School

Tenino Middle School is a 6-8 campus of close-knit scale in Tenino, Washington, run under Tenino School District, works with 291 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 577.

Within Tenino School District, which oversees 4 schools and 1,283 students, Tenino Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Tenino Middle School records that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder looks like 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Native American. Compared to Thurston County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Tenino Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Thurston County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tenino Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -8.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Thurston County indicate median household income runs about $96,563, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Tenino Middle School is one of 86 public schools in Thurston County (combined enrollment of about 44,412 students).

Tenino Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Tenino Middle School. On composite proficiency, Tenino Middle School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

Tenino Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tenino Middle School has stayed largely flat, going from 292 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 73% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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