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Timberline Middle School

Lake Washington School District · Middle · grades 6-8 · 9900 Redmond Ridge Dr NE, Redmond, WA 98053-5007

Location

9900 Redmond Ridge Dr NE, Redmond, WA 98053-5007

Academic snapshot

Meeting standard, latest year
81.9%
SBAC ELA+Math combined, 2024-25
Meeting standard, 3-year
81.6%
#5 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #5 of 12 in this district
Exceeding standard, latest year
57.5%
SBAC Level 4, the top score band
Exceeding standard, 3-year
56.3%
#4 of 177 middle schools region-wide · #3 of 12 in this district
3-year trend

Student outcomes

Growth vs academic peers
54
50 = typical · ELA 49 · math 59
Regular attendance
85.9%
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
7.6%
English language learners
4.0%
Highly Capable program
31.7%
Enrollment
792
Kids per typical block
Density band: unknown

Teachers

Teachers (latest)
46
Avg years experience
11.1
MA-degree share
87.0%
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

Timberline Middle School

Lake Washington School District · grades 6–8 · roughly 740–775 students · neighborhood school on Redmond Ridge and a host site for the district's Middle School Quest highly capable program

The verdict

The striking thing about Timberline is how little runway it needed. The building opened in fall 2019 to absorb Redmond Ridge growth, and by spring 2022 its Science Olympiad team was the Washington state champion, going on to place 7th at nationals. Four years later a Timberline squad won the 2026 regional Science Bowl outright, taking the region's single bid to the national finals in Washington, D.C. That is an unusually fast climb into the Eastside's top competitive tier. It also comes packaged with something established Lake Washington School District (LWSD) middle schools rarely offer: for 2025-26 the school was listed as officially open to transfer applicants, both in-district and out-of-district.

Two cautions before you act on that. The placement decision that matters most happens in spring of 6th grade, when Algebra 1 recommendations are made, and a student who arrives later may find the accelerated math track already set. This dossier is also thinner than most on state test data (the assessment extract for this school failed), so the academic read below leans on the school's own improvement-plan numbers and verified competition results.

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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