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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Chinook Middle School, SeaTac, WA

CEP schoolChinook Middle School is a public middle school in SeaTac, part of Highline School District. It enrolled 620 students in 2024-25, with 17.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
620
Teachers (FTE)
35.0
Students per teacher
17.7
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.9. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.7
District17.9
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
18650 42nd Ave S, SeaTac, WA 98188
County
King County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
530354000524
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
366
Reduced-price lunch
86
Free or reduced-price lunch
45272.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
323Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Highline School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.