Public school / Middle
Aspire Middle School
Lacey, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530585003280
- District
- North Thurston Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Aspire Middle School is a public middle school in Lacey, Washington, run by North Thurston Public Schools. It enrols 301 students — the 65460th largest of 2,574 public schools in Washington.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
301
Teachers
14.0
Students per teacher
21.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
28.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within North Thurston Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1River Ridge High School1,476 students
- 2North Thurston High School1,440 students
- 3Timberline High School1,404 students
- 4Nisqually Middle School831 students
- 5Chinook Middle School788 students
- 6Meadows Elementary759 students
- 7Salish Middle School735 students
- 8Pleasant Glade Elementary644 students
- Enrollment−24.2%
- Teachers−46.2%
- Students per teacher+30.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−47.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory