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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the West Valley Mid-Level Campus administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,167
Middle
DISTRICT 594 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (YAKIMA)·NCES 530972001653
West Valley Mid-Level Campus
7505 Zier Rd, Yakima, WA 98908 · (509) 972-5800 · Yakima County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,167 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% 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.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
18.7:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
638 students
DISTRICT 53% · 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 | 409 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 388 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 370 | 32% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within West Valley School District (Yakima). Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
48.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -5.1pp since 2014
Math
47.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.7pp 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 48 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.7% | 47.5% |
| 2023-24 | 54.6% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 54.9% | 47.6% |
| 2021-22 | 47.6% | 40.9% |
| 2018-19 | 59.4% | 58.4% |
| 2017-18 | 64.2% | 55.7% |
| 2016-17 | 60.8% | 48.3% |
| 2015-16 | 59.1% | 47.8% |
| 2014-15 | 53.9% | 48.2% |
% 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
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 West Valley Mid-Level Campus
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Valley Mid-Level Campus this school | 1,167 | 54.7% | 47.0% |
| Selah Middle School Selah | 871 | 51.7% | 32.9% |
| Horse Heaven Hills Middle School KENNEWICK | 856 | 55.0% | N/A |
| Columbia Middle School MOSES LAKE | 875 | 58.9% | 36.8% |
| Covington Middle School Vancouver | 830 | 58.1% | N/A |
| Wyeast Middle School Vancouver | 747 | 53.0% | N/A |
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 West Valley Mid-Level Campus ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #106 of 294 | #1 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #91 of 357 ▼ 9 | #1 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #165 of 357 ▼ 52 | #1 of 17 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.9pp | #105 of 290 | #2 of 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,167 | #5 of 377 | #1 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #137 of 340 | #9 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.0% | #179 of 340 | #1 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.7% | #156 of 359 | #15 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +40.3% | #7 of 130 | #2 of 6 |
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
1,167
+315 (+37%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 915
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 22.4:1
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 | 1,167 | 62.4 | 18.7:1 | 55% (638) |
| 2023-24 | 1,165 | 61.7 | 18.9:1 | 59% (690) |
| 2022-23 | 1,194 | 61.3 | 19.5:1 | 55% (654) |
| 2020-21 | 852 | 38 | 22.4:1 | 49% (419) |
| 2017-18 | 832 | 36.8 | 22.6:1 | 40% (332) |
| 2015-16 | 849 | 37 | 22.9:1 | 45% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 774 | 34 | 22.8:1 | 34% (263) |
| 2000-01 | 756 | 33 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 915 | 40 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West Valley Mid-Level Campus.
Since 2017-18: students up 40% (832 to 1,167); teachers up 69% (36.8 to 62.4).
About West Valley Mid-Level Campus
West Valley Mid-Level Campus runs as a large middle school in Yakima, Washington. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 1,167 students enrolled. That is 102% larger than the average of about 577 students for middle schools in Washington.
West Valley School District (Yakima) oversees West Valley Mid-Level Campus and 14 other schools, with 5,480 students in total.
White students are 52% of those enrolled at West Valley Mid-Level Campus. The next largest groups are 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 56, compared with 70 nationally.
With 62.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 18.7:1. It is about the same as the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at West Valley Mid-Level Campus, 55% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Yakima County, the average is 77%.
West Valley Mid-Level Campus holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 79% of Washington public middle schools.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, West Valley Mid-Level Campus's results are 3.5 points above predicted: 47.0% against 43.5%.
American Community Survey estimates for Yakima County show that the median household earns about $70,656 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 19%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Across Yakima County, 119 public schools serve about 52,145 students.
Measured in a straight line, Wide Hollow Elementary is about 0.7 miles from West Valley Mid-Level Campus. The five-mile area around West Valley Mid-Level Campus holds at least 8 other public schools. West Valley Mid-Level Campus comes in 3rd of 4 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 315 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 18.7 students per teacher, compared with 22.4 in 2020-21.
This page collects posts and questions about West Valley Mid-Level Campus, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Valley School District (Yakima)
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- Summitview ElementaryElementary · 475 students
- Apple Valley ElementaryElementary · 447 students
- Wide Hollow ElementaryElementary · 433 students
- Ahtanum Valley ElementaryElementary · 381 students
- Cottonwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
Nearby schools
- Wide Hollow Elementary0.7 mi · 433
- WEST VALLEY VIRTUAL ACADEMY 9-121.1 mi · 167
- WEST VALLEY VIRTUAL ACADEMY 7-81.1 mi · 21
- WEST VALLEY VIRTUAL ACADEMY K-61.1 mi · 28
- West Valley Innovation Center1.1 mi · 195
- Cottonwood Elementary School1.4 mi · 362
Frequently asked questions
About West Valley Mid-Level CampusWhat is the total enrollment at West Valley Mid-Level Campus?
West Valley Mid-Level Campus enrolls approximately 1,167 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does West Valley Mid-Level Campus serve?
West Valley Mid-Level Campus serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does West Valley Mid-Level Campus have?
West Valley Mid-Level Campus employs 62 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7:1.
What is the student diversity at West Valley Mid-Level Campus?
Student demographics at West Valley Mid-Level Campus are roughly 52% White, 40% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is West Valley Mid-Level Campus public or private?
West Valley Mid-Level Campus is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Valley School District (Yakima).
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.