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Enrollment
652
Middle
DISTRICT 610 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YELM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531014001717
Yelm Middle School
401 Coates Avenue NW, Yelm, WA 98597 · (360) 458-3600 · Thurston County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL652 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of Washington public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
21.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
337 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 | 225 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 223 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 204 | 31% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
48.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.3pp since 2014
Math
38.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -4.2pp 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 39 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 10 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.7% | 38.9% |
| 2023-24 | 47.1% | 38.0% |
| 2022-23 | 51.0% | 37.5% |
| 2021-22 | 45.2% | 33.8% |
| 2018-19 | 54.0% | 46.1% |
| 2017-18 | 57.5% | 51.3% |
| 2016-17 | 56.6% | 46.4% |
| 2015-16 | 54.1% | 44.6% |
| 2014-15 | 59.0% | 43.1% |
% 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
42.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 Yelm Middle School
Yelm Middle School's state test result (42.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yelm Middle School this school | 652 | 51.7% | 42.4% |
| Cougar Mountain Middle School Graham | 605 | 50.4% | 43.9% |
| Lakewood Middle School Marysville | 668 | 50.1% | 30.2% |
| Chehalis Middle School Chehalis | 692 | 49.3% | 40.9% |
| Cheney Middle School CHENEY | 637 | 53.7% | 34.1% |
| Carmichael Middle School Richland | 791 | 49.6% | 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 Yelm Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Thurston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #136 of 294 | #11 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #140 of 357 ▼ 6 | #10 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #166 of 357 ▲ 6 | #13 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #97 of 290 | #7 of 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 652 | #164 of 377 | #7 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #301 of 340 | #15 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #175 of 340 | #9 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.7% | #172 of 359 | #4 of 16 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.2% | #174 of 192 | #7 of 10 |
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
652
-36 (-5%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 838
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
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 | 652 | 29.9 | 21.8:1 | 52% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 683 | 35 | 19.5:1 | 53% (361) |
| 2022-23 | 696 | 36 | 19.3:1 | 53% (367) |
| 2020-21 | 688 | 33 | 20.9:1 | 48% (327) |
| 2017-18 | 667 | 35.1 | 19.0:1 | 45% (303) |
| 2015-16 | 681 | 32 | 21.3:1 | 50% (342) |
| 2010-11 | 681 | 33 | 20.6:1 | 45% (308) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 34 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 838 | 38 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yelm Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (667 to 652); teachers down 15% (35.1 to 29.9).
About Yelm Middle School
Yelm Middle School is a mid-sized middle school in Yelm, Washington, (ZIP code 98597). It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 652 students enrolled.
Yelm School District has a total of 10 schools and 5,671 students, Yelm Middle School among them.
More than half of the students at Yelm Middle School are White (62%). The next largest groups are 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander, and 2% Asian. In Thurston County overall, about 72% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 56%.
Yelm Middle School has 29.9 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.8:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Washington is 18.9:1. At Yelm Middle School, 52% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The 43% average for public schools in Thurston County is 9 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Yelm Middle School lands at B, ahead of 61% of Washington public middle schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Yelm Middle School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 42.4%; the prediction is 45.5%.
In Thurston County, home to about 299,067 people, median household income comes to about $96,563, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 86 public schools in the county, enrolling about 44,412, Yelm Middle School among them.
Yelm Extension School is about 0.3 miles from Yelm Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Yelm Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Yelm Middle School comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Yelm Middle School as Town: Fringe.
The school's enrollment fell 5% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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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 Yelm School District
- Yelm High School 12High · 1,693 students
- Southworth ElementaryElementary · 671 students
- Ridgeline Middle SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Fort Stevens ElementaryElementary · 462 students
- Yelm Prairie ElementaryElementary · 427 students
- McKenna ElementaryElementary · 418 students
Other schools in Yelm
- Yelm High School 12High · 1,693 students
- Southworth ElementaryElementary · 671 students
- Ridgeline Middle SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Fort Stevens ElementaryElementary · 462 students
- Yelm Prairie ElementaryElementary · 427 students
- Mill Pond Elementary SchoolElementary · 374 students
Nearby schools
- Yelm Extension School0.3 mi · 116
- Yelm High School 120.9 mi · 1,693
- Mill Pond Elementary School0.9 mi · 374
- Ridgeline Middle School0.9 mi · 568
- Fort Stevens Elementary1.0 mi · 462
- Yelm Prairie Elementary1.7 mi · 427
Frequently asked questions
About Yelm Middle SchoolHow large is Yelm Middle School?
Yelm Middle School enrolls approximately 652 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Yelm Middle School serve?
Yelm Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Yelm Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Yelm Middle School is approximately 21.8:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Yelm Middle School?
Yelm Middle School reports a student body of 62% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Yelm Middle School?
Yelm Middle School is overseen by Yelm School District in Thurston County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.