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Best kept secret at Thurgood Marshall Middle School?
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Enrollment
469
Middle
DISTRICT 507 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530618001737
Thurgood Marshall Middle School
3939 20TH AVE NW, OLYMPIA, WA 98502 · (360) 596-7600 · Thurston County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL469 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of Washington public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
16.7:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
187 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 158 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 179 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 132 | 28% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
49.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -13.7pp since 2014
Math
42.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 14 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.4% | 42.6% |
| 2023-24 | 52.4% | 38.0% |
| 2022-23 | 53.5% | 34.1% |
| 2021-22 | 48.9% | 34.9% |
| 2018-19 | 67.5% | 58.3% |
| 2017-18 | 68.2% | 64.1% |
| 2016-17 | 66.4% | 61.3% |
| 2015-16 | 65.2% | 61.0% |
| 2014-15 | 63.1% | 52.5% |
% 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
46.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 Thurgood Marshall Middle School
Thurgood Marshall Middle School's state test result (46.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurgood Marshall Middle School this school | 469 | 39.9% | 46.4% |
| Jefferson Middle School OLYMPIA | 462 | 42.9% | 61.3% |
| Edgemont Jr High Edgewood | 590 | 43.9% | 44.0% |
| North Whidbey Middle School Oak Harbor | 705 | 42.3% | 46.2% |
| Aspire Middle School Lacey | 323 | 35.3% | 64.5% |
| Reeves Middle School OLYMPIA | 394 | 35.8% | 50.2% |
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 Thurgood Marshall Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Thurston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #108 of 294 | #7 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #119 of 357 ▲ 17 | #8 of 16 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #158 of 357 ▼ 27 | #12 of 16 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.1pp | #102 of 290 | #8 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 469 | #265 of 377 | #11 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #40 of 340 | #2 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.0% | #133 of 340 | #7 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.9% | #248 of 359 | #11 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.8% | #21 of 130 | N/A |
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
469
+58 (+14%) vs 2020
+14% since 2000-01, when it was 412
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
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 | 469 | 28 | 16.7:1 | 40% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 26.3 | 18.4:1 | 39% (188) |
| 2022-23 | 441 | 26.9 | 16.4:1 | 54% (236) |
| 2020-21 | 411 | 24 | 17.1:1 | 35% (145) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 22.2 | 17.3:1 | 37% (143) |
| 2015-16 | 387 | 20 | 19.4:1 | 40% (156) |
| 2010-11 | 379 | 20 | 18.9:1 | 32% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 412 | 23 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Thurgood Marshall Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (385 to 469); teachers up 26% (22.2 to 28).
About Thurgood Marshall Middle School
Thurgood Marshall Middle School is a small middle school in OLYMPIA, Washington, under Olympia School District. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 469 students in grades 6 through 8.
Thurgood Marshall Middle School falls under Olympia School District, which has 20 schools enrolling 9,386 students.
At Thurgood Marshall Middle School, White students make up 54% of the student body. Next come 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 5% Black. The county population is about 72% White. Thurgood Marshall Middle School's diversity index is 63%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school has about 16.7 students per teacher and 28 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.2 below the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 40%.
The allk12 Grade for Thurgood Marshall Middle School is B. Compared with Washington public middle schools, the school scored higher than 55% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 53.5% at Thurgood Marshall Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 46.4%.
Among Thurston County residents, the median household income is $96,563, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Thurgood Marshall Middle School is one of 86 public schools in the county.
Julia Butler Hansen Elementary is located about 0.2 miles from Thurgood Marshall Middle School. The five-mile area around Thurgood Marshall Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 46.4% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 8 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment is up 14% from 2020-21, when Thurgood Marshall Middle School had 411 students, to 2024-25, when it had 469.
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Thurston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
299,067
Census ACS
Median income
$96,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
44,412 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olympia School District
- Olympia High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Capital High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
- Centennial ElementaryElementary · 434 students
- Julia Butler Hansen ElementaryElementary · 412 students
Other schools in OLYMPIA
- Olympia High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Capital High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Griffin SchoolElementary · 585 students
- East Olympia ElementaryElementary · 579 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
Other Thurgood Marshall Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Thurgood Marshall Middle. Thurgood Marshall Middle School is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Thurgood Marshall MiddleTemple Hills, MD · 707 students
- Thurgood Marshall MiddleAntioch, TN · 603 students
- THURGOOD MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOLROCHESTER, NY · 325 students
- Thurgood Marshall Middle SchoolEvergreen, AL · 167 students
Nearby schools
- Julia Butler Hansen Elementary0.2 mi · 412
- Capital High School1.1 mi · 1,322
- Jefferson Middle School1.3 mi · 462
- Leland P Brown Elementary1.3 mi · 328
- Garfield Elementary School1.7 mi · 314
- McLane Elementary School1.9 mi · 407
Frequently asked questions
About Thurgood Marshall Middle SchoolHow many students attend Thurgood Marshall Middle School?
Thurgood Marshall Middle School enrolls approximately 469 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Thurgood Marshall Middle School serve?
Thurgood Marshall Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Thurgood Marshall Middle School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Thurgood Marshall Middle School.
How diverse is Thurgood Marshall Middle School?
Thurgood Marshall Middle School reports a student body of 54% White, 16% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Thurgood Marshall Middle School in?
Thurgood Marshall Middle School is part of Olympia School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.