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Beaver Lake Middle School

Issaquah School District · Middle · grades 6-8 · 25025 SE 32nd St, Sammamish, WA 98029-7738

Location

25025 SE 32nd St, Sammamish, WA 98029-7738

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
82.4%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
80.5%
#6 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #1 of 6 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
56.6%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
51.5%
#7 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #1 of 6 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Growth vs academic peers
57
50 = typical · ELA 55 · math 60
Regular attendance
86.2%
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
9.6%
English language learners
2.6%
Highly Capable program
9.4%
Enrollment
705
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
52
Avg years experience
13.5
MA-degree share
84.6%
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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Competition and advanced-peer evidence

Aggregated from WHSCA, Washington Science Olympiad, The Blue Alliance, and the Seattle Times National Merit list. "Known counts" only, missing public evidence is not proof of absence.

Highly Capable / gifted pathway

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

Research dossier

Beaver Lake Middle School

Issaquah School District · grades 6–8 · 705 students · attendance-area neighborhood school on the Sammamish plateau, feeding Skyline High School

The verdict

Beaver Lake is the smaller and quieter of Sammamish's two Issaquah middle schools. Its test scores are excellent and climbing, but the defining feature is the placement machinery. No decision a family makes here matters more than fifth-grade math placement, because Beaver Lake publishes five distinct math tracks, and the top one, Exceptional Placement, puts a sixth grader into Algebra 1 and delivers Advanced Algebra 2 by eighth grade. Science access is chained to math: the eighth-grade Biology course that earns high school credit is only open to students concurrently in Algebra 1 or above. In practice, the winter i-Ready test your child takes in fifth grade quietly sets both their math and science ceilings for the next three years.

Two things complicate the picture. The 2026-27 year is a rare open door, with the school flipping from closed to open for transfers. But the pipe narrows downstream, because the district's own capital plan projects its high schools, Skyline included, to run over capacity through at least 2033. A family that reads placement rules carefully and wants aggressive, test-gated acceleration will find Beaver Lake unusually legible. A family whose child needs a gentler ramp shouldn't write it off either, because the building invests more deliberately in social-emotional scaffolding than its acceleration tables suggest.

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

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