Summary:
Orting Middle School is the only middle school in Orting School District, serving about 643 students in grades 6–8 in the Orting, Washington area. Because there is only one middle school, families cannot compare it with another middle school within the district. The school serves a community with approximately 40% of students participating in free or reduced-price lunch programs, and its reported student-teacher ratio is 21.2 to 1.
The school’s strongest subject is English language arts, where 45.21% of students met proficiency standards in 2025–2026. Seventh-grade ELA was a particular bright spot, with 50.88% proficiency, only 2.35 percentage points below the statewide result. Math remains the biggest academic challenge, with 33.08% proficiency overall. Math results decreased by grade, from 35.22% in sixth grade to 30.62% in eighth grade. Science proficiency was 38.76%, below both the district and state results, and eighth-grade science was about 10 percentage points below the statewide level.
There are some encouraging signs in the recent results. Math proficiency improved by 6.14 percentage points from the previous year, while ELA increased by 1.69 points. Science declined by 3.35 points and should be monitored. The school’s ranking also improved from the 29th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 44th percentile in 2025–2026, although it still trails statewide performance in every reported subject and grade. For parents, the main areas to examine are math support through grades 7 and 8, eighth-grade academic performance, and plans to strengthen science. The school’s improving ranking and relatively strong seventh-grade ELA results provide positive signs to balance those concerns.
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