Summary:
The Lynden School District has one middle school, serving grades 6–8: Lynden Middle School, a 705-student school in the Lynden area at 8750 Line Road.
Lynden Middle School offers a mixed academic picture, with English Language Arts (ELA) as its strongest overall subject. In 2025–26, 50.78% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 55.44% in the Lynden School District and 52.81% statewide. Math proficiency was 36.98%, about six percentage points below both district and state results. Science was 43.63%, the school’s largest comparative weakness, trailing the district by 9.37 percentage points and the state by 7.32 points. The school did improve in all three subjects from the previous year, with the largest gain in science. Its ranking also improved from the 48th percentile in 2024–25 to the 57th percentile in 2025–26.
The clearest strengths are in 6th grade, where ELA proficiency was 55.61% and math proficiency was 42.41%, exceeding both district and state results. Seventh-grade ELA was also slightly above both comparisons. The main concerns are later-grade results: 8th-grade ELA was 43.97%, nearly seven points below the state, while 7th- and 8th-grade math remained below statewide performance. Eighth-grade science was nearly identical to the district but about five points below the state. The school has a 4-star rating, a student-teacher ratio of 18.9:1, and 47.52% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For families, the most important takeaway is that the school is improving and has solid early middle-school performance, while continued support in upper-grade ELA, math, and science may be especially valuable.
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