Public school / Middle
Orchard Middle School
Wenatchee, Washington
- NCES ID
- 530966001634
- District
- Wenatchee School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Orchard Middle School is a public middle school in Wenatchee, Washington, run by Wenatchee School District. It enrols 403 students — the 50432nd 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
403
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
13.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.7%
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 Wenatchee 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.
- 1Wenatchee High School2,076 students
- 2Pioneer Middle School597 students
- 3Foothills Middle School578 students
- 4Washington Elementary School494 students
- 5Abraham Lincoln Elementary465 students
- 6Mission View Elementary School457 students
- 7Lewis and Clark Elementary Sch430 students
- 8John Newbery Elementary420 students
- Enrollment+1.5%
- Teachers+19.2%
- Students per teacher−21.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+37.8%
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