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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Wilson Middle School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
840
Middle
DISTRICT 813 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001710
Wilson Middle School
902 S 44th Ave, Yakima, WA 98908 · (509) 573-2400 · Yakima County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL840 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
632 students
DISTRICT 86% · 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 | 300 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 298 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 242 | 29% |
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
33.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -8.7pp since 2014
Math
19.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.1% | 19.8% |
| 2023-24 | 37.1% | 21.7% |
| 2022-23 | 39.1% | 18.7% |
| 2021-22 | 39.0% | 24.3% |
| 2018-19 | 46.0% | 39.5% |
| 2017-18 | 44.6% | 38.8% |
| 2016-17 | 35.9% | 29.9% |
| 2015-16 | 38.3% | 28.0% |
| 2014-15 | 41.8% | 26.1% |
% 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
29.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Wilson Middle School
Wilson Middle School's state test result (29.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Middle School this school | 840 | 75.2% | 29.1% |
| La Venture Middle School Mount Vernon | 663 | 69.8% | 32.1% |
| Housel Middle School Prosser | 529 | 75.8% | N/A |
| Highlands Middle School KENNEWICK | 745 | 76.5% | N/A |
| Franklin Middle School Yakima | 848 | 85.0% | 29.0% |
| Quincy Middle School QUINCY | 717 | 79.9% | 26.4% |
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 Wilson Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.1% | #230 of 294 | #7 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #288 of 357 ▼ 15 | #8 of 17 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #289 of 357 ▼ 33 | #10 of 17 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.3pp | #18 of 290 | #4 of 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 840 | #53 of 377 | #4 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #188 of 340 | #14 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.5% | #286 of 340 | #6 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.2% | #41 of 359 | #12 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #166 of 192 | #9 of 9 |
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
840
-78 (-8%) vs 2020
+31% since 1990-91, when it was 640
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 20.9:1
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 | 840 | 43 | 19.5:1 | 75% (632) |
| 2023-24 | 837 | 44.3 | 18.9:1 | 77% (647) |
| 2022-23 | 856 | 43.2 | 19.8:1 | 72% (615) |
| 2020-21 | 918 | 44 | 20.9:1 | 69% (636) |
| 2017-18 | 864 | 43.5 | 19.9:1 | 63% (541) |
| 2015-16 | 842 | 40 | 21.1:1 | 79% (667) |
| 2010-11 | 777 | 39 | 19.9:1 | 67% (522) |
| 2000-01 | 671 | 37 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 640 | 32 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilson Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (864 to 840); teachers down 1% (43.5 to 43).
About Wilson Middle School
The public middle school Wilson Middle School is located in Yakima, Washington. The school reports 840 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 46% above the 577 average for middle schools in Washington.
Wilson Middle School is run by Yakima School District, whose 27 schools enroll 15,488 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Wilson Middle School, at 74%. Other students are 20% White and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 52% Hispanic share among all Yakima County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 41% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Wilson Middle School is 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 19.5:1. For comparison, middle schools in Washington average 18.9:1. About 75% of students, or 632, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That tracks the 77% average for public schools in Yakima County.
In Washington, Wilson Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 29.1% actual against a predicted 29.7%.
Census estimates describe Yakima County this way: the median household income is $70,656, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. In all, Yakima County has 119 public schools and roughly 52,145 students.
The nearest public school is Whitney Elementary, at about 0.1 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 29.1% average proficiency ranks 7th among 9 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, Wilson Middle School is City: Small.
Wilson Middle School's enrollment declined from 918 in 2020-21 to 840 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 19.5:1, from 20.9:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Wilson Middle School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Yakima School District
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolElementary · 643 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Other Wilson Middle schools
15 other US public schools in 11 states are named Wilson Middle. Wilson Middle School is the largest of the 16.
- Wilson Middle SchoolPLANO, TX · 813 students
- Wilson MiddleNatick, MA · 727 students
- Wilson MiddleSan Diego, CA · 712 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolNEDERLAND, TX · 678 students
- Wilson MiddleFishersville, VA · 641 students
Nearby schools
- Whitney Elementary0.1 mi · 433
- Eisenhower High School0.3 mi · 2,258
- Nob Hill Elementary School0.7 mi · 339
- Gilbert Elementary School1.1 mi · 415
- Summitview Elementary1.3 mi · 475
- Mcclure Elementary School1.4 mi · 559
Frequently asked questions
About Wilson Middle SchoolHow many students attend Wilson Middle School?
Wilson Middle School enrolls approximately 840 students in grades 06-08.
Is Wilson Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wilson Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Wilson Middle School have?
Wilson Middle School employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Wilson Middle School?
Student demographics at Wilson Middle School are roughly 20% White, 74% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Wilson Middle School?
Wilson Middle School is overseen by Yakima School District in Yakima County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.