# Cougar Mountain Middle School

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530048003158`
- **School name**: Cougar Mountain Middle School
- **Location**: Graham, WA 98338
- **Address**: 5108 260th St. East
- **District**: Bethel School District (LEAID `5300480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 47.01928, -122.36221
- **Phone**: (253)800-8000

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 605
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.4%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 9
  - proficiency_math_decile: 10
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 9.5
  - growth_ela_decile: 7
  - growth_math_decile: 8
  - other_academic_combined_decile: 7.5
  - el_progress_decile: 5
  - regularattendance_decile: 8
  - sqss_combined_decile: 8
  - _2025_score: 8.2
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 53.7% (320 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 16.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.9%
- **Asian**: 1.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 64.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.0%
- **Two or more races**: 13.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.5% — 105 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 29 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,696
- **Federal share**: $1,833
- **State + local share**: $17,863
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 598
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,529,102
- **Federal share**: 8.5%
- **State share**: 66.9%
- **Local share**: 24.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,501,524

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $118,583
- **Poverty rate**: 9.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.0%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,783
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.3 miles (HIDDEN VALLEY LANDFILL THUN FIELD)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.32 miles (HERITAGE BANK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GRAHAM HILL MUTUAL WATER CO INC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.14643 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Rocky Ridge Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 30.6% (this school: 53.69%)
- **Centennial Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 44.54% (this school: 53.69%)
- **Shining Mountain Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 30.07% (this school: 53.69%)
- **North Star Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 47.12% (this school: 53.69%)
- **Elk Plain School of Choice** — 3.1 mi away, 27.39% (this school: 53.69%)

### ela proficiency
- **Bethel High School** — 2.5 mi away, 65.7% (this school: 54.7%)
- **North Star Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 54.9% (this school: 54.7%)
- **Elk Plain School of Choice** — 3.1 mi away, 55.2% (this school: 54.7%)
- **Pioneer Valley Elementary** — 3.9 mi away, 55.4% (this school: 54.7%)
- **Nelson Elementary School** — 4.4 mi away, 55.7% (this school: 54.7%)

### math proficiency
- **Rocky Ridge Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 45.5% (this school: 34.9%)
- **Centennial Elementary** — 1.2 mi away, 48% (this school: 34.9%)
- **Shining Mountain Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 38.3% (this school: 34.9%)
- **North Star Elementary** — 2.9 mi away, 50.8% (this school: 34.9%)
- **Elk Plain School of Choice** — 3.1 mi away, 46.5% (this school: 34.9%)

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

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