Thurgood Marshall Middle School

Thurgood Marshall Middle School, a low-enrollment intermediate school in OLYMPIA, Washington, one of the schools within Olympia School District, serves 469 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Thurgood Marshall Middle School is one of 20 schools operated by Olympia School District, a district that caters to 9,386 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Thurgood Marshall Middle School lists that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Thurgood Marshall Middle School logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Thurgood Marshall Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.5%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Thurston County) logs that median household earnings sit near $96,563, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Thurston County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,412 students), of which Thurgood Marshall Middle School is one.

Julia Butler Hansen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thurgood Marshall Middle School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 46.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Thurgood Marshall Middle School's enrollment has climbed 22% since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 469). The White share of enrollment edged down from 63% to 54% over that span.

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