Public school / Middle
Northstar Middle School
Kirkland, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530423001843
- District
- Lake Washington School District
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Northstar Middle School is a public middle school in Kirkland, Washington, run by Lake Washington School District. It enrols 89 students — the 88264th 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
89
Teachers
4.0
Students per teacher
22.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
3.4%
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 Lake Washington School District
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.
- 1Eastlake High School2,349 students
- 2Redmond High School2,218 students
- 3Lake Washington High School2,015 students
- 4Juanita High School1,695 students
- 5Inglewood Middle School1,211 students
- 6Redmond Middle School943 students
- 7Rose Hill Middle School885 students
- 8Evergreen Middle School771 students
- Enrollment−77.6%
- Teachers−84.6%
- Students per teacher+35.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−93.6%
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