# Discovery Middle School

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

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/discovery-middle-school-vancouver

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530927002018`
- **School name**: Discovery Middle School
- **Location**: VANCOUVER, WA 98663
- **Address**: 800 E 40TH ST
- **District**: Vancouver School District (LEAID `5309270`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 45.65193, -122.66364
- **Phone**: (360)313-3300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 525
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.0%

## 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: 1
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - sqss_combined_decile: 1
  - _2025_score: 1.25
  - overall: Tier 3: Comprehensive

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 56.1% (355 students) [source: crdc_2020]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 41.6%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 3.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.8%
- **Two or more races**: 9.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.0% — 89 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 49 students
- **Autism**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $21,736
- **Federal share**: $1,702
- **State + local share**: $20,035
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 491
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,088,726
- **Federal share**: 15.7%
- **State share**: 61.3%
- **Local share**: 22.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,557,478

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $85,536
- **Poverty rate**: 12.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.3%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,523
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.7 miles (BOOMSNUB AIRCO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 65
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.26 miles (PACIFIC POINTE APARTMENTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VANCOUVER CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 4.52704 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Lincoln Elementary School** — 0.6 mi away, 25.85% (this school: 56.08%)
- **Vancouver School of Arts and Academics** — 0.6 mi away, 14.21% (this school: 56.08%)
- **Washington Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 35.15% (this school: 56.08%)
- **Benjamin Franklin Elementary** — 0.9 mi away, 5.78% (this school: 56.08%)
- **Minnehaha Elementary School** — 1.2 mi away, 28.7% (this school: 56.08%)

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