Tyee Middle School

Tyee Middle School operates as a sprawling intermediate school in Bellevue, Washington, one of the schools within Bellevue School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,007 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 75% larger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 577 students.

Bellevue School District runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 20,339 students. Tyee Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Tyee Middle School logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% White, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 21% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Tyee Middle School ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 67.6%; Tyee Middle School posts 79.2%, +11.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for King County indicate median household income runs about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Tyee Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Newport Senior High School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Tyee Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,005 students in 2018 compared to 1,007 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 57% to 67% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.