Summary:
Clarkston School District in Washington serves middle school students with a single school, Lincoln Middle School, which educates about 346 students in grades 7 and 8 within a district that ranks in the bottom 40% statewide.
Lincoln Middle School shows a consistent, mid-tier performance, holding a 2-star rating for the last three years and ranking around the middle of all Washington middle schools. The school's results reveal a notable pattern: 8th graders consistently outperform 7th graders, particularly in math where 8th-grade proficiency is competitive with the state average, while 7th-grade scores are significantly lower. In English, the school performs close to the Clarkston School District average, but it trails state averages in all core subjects, with the largest gap in mathematics.
With over half of its students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, the school operates with a per-student spending of over $18,000. The analysis suggests the school's stable but unexceptional results, combined with its substantial resources, point to an opportunity to leverage the apparent strengths in 8th-grade instruction to improve outcomes for all students, especially in closing the performance gap between grade levels and raising proficiency in science and math to meet state benchmarks.
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