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Enrollment
934
Middle
DISTRICT 662 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLOVER PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530141000272
Thomas Middle School
11509 Holden Rd SW, Lakewood, WA 98498 · (253) 583-5440 · Pierce County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL934 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
594 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 312 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 320 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 302 | 32% |
Student demographics
77%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
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
41.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.5pp since 2014
Math
24.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 4 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 | 41.0% | 24.6% |
| 2023-24 | 36.8% | 20.7% |
| 2022-23 | 38.2% | 18.8% |
| 2021-22 | 40.6% | 21.6% |
| 2018-19 | 57.5% | 33.6% |
| 2017-18 | 52.6% | 37.5% |
| 2016-17 | 57.2% | 44.9% |
| 2015-16 | 55.0% | 44.2% |
| 2014-15 | 45.5% | 38.8% |
% 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
30.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Thomas Middle School
Thomas Middle School's state test result (30.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Middle School this school | 934 | 63.6% | 30.9% |
| Cedarcrest Middle School Spanaway | 765 | 62.6% | 28.2% |
| Morris Ford Middle School Tacoma | 831 | 64.6% | 30.3% |
| Perry G Keithley Middle School TACOMA | 804 | 68.8% | 17.5% |
| Cascade Middle School AUBURN | 966 | 65.2% | 27.9% |
| Spanaway Middle School Tacoma | 766 | 67.8% | 41.5% |
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 Thomas Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #218 of 294 | #33 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.6% | #257 of 357 ▲ 23 | #33 of 45 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #236 of 357 ▲ 25 | #33 of 45 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #156 of 290 | #29 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 934 | #25 of 377 | #3 of 45 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #78 of 340 | #3 of 44 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.1% | #26 of 340 | #10 of 44 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.6% | #92 of 359 | #11 of 45 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +83.5% | #1 of 130 | #1 of 19 |
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
934
-40 (-4%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 638
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.1:1
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 | 934 | 53 | 17.6:1 | 64% (594) |
| 2023-24 | 980 | 52 | 18.9:1 | 74% (724) |
| 2022-23 | 974 | 48 | 20.3:1 | 61% (591) |
| 2020-21 | 974 | 57 | 17.1:1 | 58% (565) |
| 2017-18 | 509 | 24 | 21.2:1 | 75% (383) |
| 2015-16 | 471 | 27 | 17.4:1 | 84% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 501 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 72% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 787 | 41 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 638 | 35 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thomas Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 83% (509 to 934); teachers up 121% (24 to 53).
About Thomas Middle School
Thomas Middle School is the name of a large middle school in Lakewood, Washington. A federal count lists 934 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. Average enrollment for middle schools in Washington is about 577, so this school runs 62% bigger than that.
The district, Clover Park School District, operates 32 schools serving 12,345 students.
Thomas Middle School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 32%. Other reported shares: 28% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 13% Black, and 7% Pacific Islander. That compares with about 64% White among all Pierce County residents. The school's diversity index is 77%, meaning two students picked at random have a 77% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 17.6:1 comes from the school's 53 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. The lunch program counts 64% of students at Thomas Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Pierce County is 50%.
The model predicts 37.5% for a school in Washington with Thomas Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Thomas Middle School posts 30.9%.
Pierce County census figures show that the median household income is $99,564, roughly 31% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 287 public schools in Pierce County, enrolling about 138,462 students in all.
The next-closest public school is Re-Entry High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 30.9% is below the 47.2% average for nearby schools.
NCES assigns Thomas Middle School the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment at Thomas Middle School dropped 4% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 974 to 934 students.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clover Park School District
- Clover Park High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Lakes High SchoolHigh · 1,158 students
- General William H. Harrison Preparatory SchoolHigh · 738 students
- Rainier Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
- Hillside Elementary SchoolElementary · 567 students
- Hudtloff Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
Other schools in Lakewood
- Clover Park High SchoolHigh · 1,161 students
- Lakes High SchoolHigh · 1,158 students
- General William H. Harrison Preparatory SchoolHigh · 738 students
- Hudtloff Middle SchoolMiddle · 555 students
- Four Heroes ElementaryElementary · 541 students
- Lakeview Hope AcademyElementary · 540 students
Other Thomas Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Thomas Middle. Thomas Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Thomas Middle SchoolArlington Heights, IL · 1,024 students
- Thomas Middle SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 391 students
Nearby schools
- Re-Entry High School0.0 mi · 5
- Lake Louise Elementary School0.3 mi · 450
- Alfaretta House0.8 mi · 26
- Lakes High School0.8 mi · 1,158
- Idlewild Elementary School1.0 mi · 380
- Cherrydale Elementary1.3 mi · 348
Frequently asked questions
About Thomas Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Thomas Middle School?
Thomas Middle School enrolls approximately 934 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Thomas Middle School serve?
Thomas Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Thomas Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Thomas Middle School is approximately 17.6:1 (53 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Thomas Middle School?
Thomas Middle School reports a student body of 32% White, 28% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is Thomas Middle School public or private?
Thomas Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Clover Park School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.