Summary:
Anacortes School District has one middle school, Anacortes Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the coastal city of Anacortes, Washington. The school enrolls 617 students and is part of the highly ranked Anacortes School District, which ranks 41st of 238 Washington districts, placing it in the 83rd percentile. With a 4-star rating maintained across the three reported years, the school remains a relatively strong statewide option. Its latest ranking places it in the 71st percentile among Washington schools, although that is down from the 79th percentile three years earlier.
The clearest strength at Anacortes Middle School is mathematics. In 2025–26, 50.67% of students were proficient in math, compared with 43.11% statewide. Results were especially strong in seventh grade, at 55.17%, and eighth grade, at 55.05%, compared with 41.31% and 38.80% statewide. English language arts performance was close to the state overall, with 53.16% proficiency, and was stronger in sixth and seventh grades than statewide. Eighth-grade ELA was a notable weakness at 46.77%, below the state rate of 50.90%. Science proficiency was 49.51%, slightly below the state rate of 50.95% and substantially below the district average of 64.06%.
Parents should be aware that the school’s results declined in the latest year across all three tested subjects: ELA fell 3.25 percentage points, math fell 5.40 points, and science fell 6.99 points. The school also trails the district averages in ELA, math, and science, despite generally matching or exceeding statewide results. Its 22.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio and 32.74% free- or reduced-price lunch eligibility provide useful context, while the available data does not show subgroup results or actual class sizes. Overall, the school offers particularly solid math performance and a favorable statewide standing, with the main areas to monitor being eighth-grade ELA, science, and whether the recent declines continue.
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