Summary:
Nine Mile Falls School District has one middle school, Lakeside Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Nine Mile Falls, Washington area. With 293 students, the school is the only middle-school option in the Nine Mile Falls School District, so its results represent the district’s entire middle-school picture. Lakeside has a 16.4-to-1 student-teacher ratio, 35.15% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and reported spending was $16,383 per student in 2023–2024.
Lakeside is performing better than Washington statewide averages in all three reported subjects for 2025–2026: 55.37% of students were proficient in English language arts, 50.65% in math, and 56.88% in science. However, the school was below district averages in each subject, particularly in English language arts, where it trailed the district by 7.61 percentage points. English language arts performance was fairly steady across grades, ranging from 53.27% in sixth grade to 56.88% in eighth grade. Science was also a relative strength compared with the state, matching the district at 56.88% and exceeding the statewide rate.
The most important area for parents to examine is eighth-grade math. Proficiency was 66.04% in sixth grade and 57.14% in seventh grade, but fell to 30.28% in eighth grade—below both the district and state eighth-grade rates. Overall results also declined from the prior year, with math and science each dropping by more than eight percentage points and English language arts falling by 2.71 points. Lakeside remains a relatively strong school, with a current listed district standing of 23rd out of 238 and a five-star rating, but its separate ranking history declined from the 86th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 73rd percentile in 2025–2026. Parents may want to ask about support for eighth-grade math and plans to address the recent subject-wide declines.
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