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Woodward Middle School

Bainbridge Island School District · Middle · grades 6-8 · 9100 Sportsman Club Rd NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3640

Location

9100 Sportsman Club Rd NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-3640

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
78.9%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
77.8%
#10 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #1 of 1 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
48.3%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
45.0%
#18 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #1 of 1 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Growth vs academic peers
52
50 = typical · ELA 54 · math 51
Regular attendance
83.1%
Missing fewer than 2 days/month

Directly from OSPI Report Card (graduation, postsecondary via ERDC, ninth-grade on track, dual credit, growth, attendance). Latest published year.

Who attends

Students from low-income homes
12.1%
English language learners
0.4%
Highly Capable program
20.9%
Enrollment
489
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
32
Avg years experience
17.1
MA-degree share
62.5%
3-year experience trend

Avg years and MA-degree share are direct OSPI publications; the 3-year trend is our derivation. From data.wa.gov/yp28-ks6d.

School pathway

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Highly Capable / gifted pathway

Curated from district Highly Capable program pages, with observed-at dates and confidence labels.

Research dossier

Woodward Middle School

Bainbridge Island School District · grades 7–8 · 489 students · the sole traditional middle school on Bainbridge Island

The verdict

Woodward isn't one middle school among several. Bainbridge runs a single school per grade band, so essentially every public-school seventh and eighth grader on the island spends exactly two years in this building. That removes the usual "which middle school" decision and replaces it with a sharper question: is what Woodward does the right fit for your particular kid?

What Woodward does, per the data, is maintain rather than accelerate. Literacy instruction is legitimately excellent, at the 89th percentile against demographically matched schools statewide, and the advanced-reader share is still climbing. Math is merely fine for a school this affluent: 70th percentile among peers, with a median student-growth percentile of 51, which is the statistical definition of average progress. Meanwhile a full 20.9% of the student body carries a Highly Capable designation, served through in-class enrichment rather than a compacted accelerated track. If you want breadth (real career and technical education electives, a decorated band program, structured social-emotional support), this school delivers unusually well for grades 7–8. If your child needs math velocity, the burden of proof is on the building, and you should ask the pointed questions below.

Researched 2026-06-27. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.

That is the free excerpt. The full dossier is the rest of the file: how these outcomes hold up in context, how deep the advanced-peer group actually runs, how families get in (and who doesn't), culture signals from handbooks and climate surveys, logistics, neighborhood context, the open questions to ask on your tour, and every citation, so you can check our work. Unlock it for $9, or get a $29 Research Pass with 3 dossiers included.

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