# Cascade Middle School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/llm*

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530030000033`
- **School name**: Cascade Middle School
- **Location**: AUBURN, WA 98002
- **Address**: 1015 24TH ST NE
- **District**: Auburn School District (LEAID `5300300`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 47.32930, -122.21480
- **Phone**: (253)931-4995

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 966
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Tier 3: Comprehensive
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 1
  - proficiency_math_decile: 1
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 1
  - growth_ela_decile: 1
  - growth_math_decile: 2
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 1.5
  - el_progress_decile: 3
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - sqss_combined_decile: 1
  - _2025_score: 1.35
  - overall: Tier 3: Comprehensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 38.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 56.0% (490 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2023
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 26

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.8%
- **Black/African American**: 9.3%
- **Asian**: 9.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 34.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 8.8%
- **Two or more races**: 10.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.5% — 101 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,918
- **Federal share**: $693
- **State + local share**: $16,225
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 869
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $22,218,334
- **Federal share**: 11.0%
- **State share**: 66.6%
- **Local share**: 22.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,382,589

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $87,188
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.1%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,444
- **Foreign-born residents**: 32.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.1 miles (MIDWAY LANDFILL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 9
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 36
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.88 miles (STARROW ENTERPRISES PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: Auburn City of
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.41835 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Dick Scobee Elementary School** — 0.6 mi away, 44.64% (this school: 56%)
- **Rainier Middle School** — 1.4 mi away, 35.19% (this school: 56%)
- **Auburn Senior High School** — 1.4 mi away, 44.45% (this school: 56%)
- **Hazelwood Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 17.89% (this school: 56%)
- **Washington Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 32.19% (this school: 56%)

### ela proficiency
- **Rainier Middle School** — 1.4 mi away, 36.9% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Auburn Senior High School** — 1.4 mi away, 51.6% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Hazelwood Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 44.3% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Lea Hill Elementary School** — 1.9 mi away, 37% (this school: 35.4%)
- **Auburn Mountainview High School** — 2.2 mi away, 57.8% (this school: 35.4%)

### math proficiency
- **Dick Scobee Elementary School** — 0.6 mi away, 28.7% (this school: 22.5%)
- **Rainier Middle School** — 1.4 mi away, 23.6% (this school: 22.5%)
- **Hazelwood Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 50.8% (this school: 22.5%)
- **Washington Elementary School** — 1.5 mi away, 34.4% (this school: 22.5%)
- **Lea Hill Elementary School** — 1.9 mi away, 41.9% (this school: 22.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/cascade-middle-school-auburn/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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