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Komachin Middle School

Lacey, WA 98503

Phone: (360) 412-4740
District: North Thurston Public Schools

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public • Grades 6,7,8 • 694 students

Komachin Middle School, a public school located in Lacey, WA, serves grades 6-8 in the North Thurston Public Schools.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 7 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Komachin Middle School is a public school located in Lacey, WA. 694 students attend Komachin Middle School.

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Category	Rating	Details
Test Scores	6/10	The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Smarter Balanced Assessment data from Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, and using 2025 Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science data from Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Student Growth	7/10	The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2025 Student growth data from Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Posted: October 17, 2023

I was a child in this school district, and I remember always feeling like the Komachin kids, had a better schedule and learning environment. Fast forward 20 years and I still feel that way. My daughter now attends this school after going to Washington middle school for a year. And this is way better engagement and experience than Washington.

Posted: September 7, 2022

this school is a joke. they treated me and mental illnesses and bullying problems like hell. the teachers see and do nothing. the teachers publicly humiliate others too. the principals do nothing. never have i seen a kid genuinely nervous to see them, they do nothing. im going into my second year there today and I hate it. worst school me or my family have had to deal with. they treat my family like a joke too.

Posted: March 2, 2022

My son was in Komachin middle school for 2 years. HE LOVED IT. The teachers were super nice and supportive. I like how they do conferences and involve parents in their student's learning.

Posted: January 13, 2022

My son who is ADHD with and IEP attend this school and the whole time he attended I heard from
Only one teacher. She was awesome and did her best to help our son succeed. However all of the other teachers must had missed the memo that my child was a child with an education plan. I was not looking for a hand out but more direction and communication from the teachers. My son ultimately failed all but two classes and I only found out because I requested his report card. This is unacceptable as a school that not one of his teacher besides the Advocacy teacher reached out to find solution to help him and no one else took the time.

Posted: February 23, 2018

Warm friendly administrative staff and teachers are what makes this a great school.

Posted: February 23, 2018

Posted: December 13, 2016

They do not follow through with helping your child not getting bullied. The counselor there is a joke. She was DOODLING during our meeting!! The principal threatened to call police on my son that locked himself in the stall because of bulling and he'd had enough. The teachers he had (most of them) did not care enough to teach him properly and the principal backs them up on it. I took my child out of public school because of them and their lack of caring. I"m not sure how they even got the jobs they got! Ridiculous.

Posted: December 13, 2016

Posted: April 7, 2014

Odd that my experience is so different from the last post - three kids and seven years at Komachin and I couldn't ask for more. Honors classes and Socratic seminars, book discussions and photography classes... They even have a robotics club. The test scores are the highest for middle schools in the district and better than the State scores in writing and reading... I did laugh when they went to one way hallways, but that's a part of their community building - same with the advisory bonding stuff. All my kids feel like they belong. My middle son, a sophomore at TLine, keeps reminding my daughter how well prepared she will be for high school and college because of her a Komachin teachers. If anything, students are too busy. Sometimes the homework load seems like too much... Depending on the teacher...

Posted: December 4, 2013

WARNING! This school is not your average middle school. They treat the students as if they were back in 3rd grade, giving them happy notes for walking down the hall using the arrows. They play games called angry pickle, happy sun to voice unhappy feelings, really? This is 7th grade not preschool!! My child came to this school from a school that was challenging. This school is a joke, my child is learning things like simple poetry, and water painting in language arts (same lessons for the past 2 months!) and in math she never seems to get a solid lesson. I respect teachers and appreciate the level of care but it is middle school not day care. I am looking into home schooling for the first time because she has fallen so far from where she has to be to do well in high school and then college. I have met with the teachers but got nothing as far as lessons or goals, I left more confused then ever. Avoid this school if possible, the test scores speak volumes!!

Posted: March 19, 2013

it was the worst 2 years of my life. they treated me and my family like hell. the teachers and staff are inexperienced and would care less about you. my mother was forced to leave the school grounds because she defended me while i was sick in the health room. please do me a favor and take your children else where. also, put me behind in test scores by not teaching and using youtube to teach the class 70% of the time. i have struggled especially in math all through high school... parents stay on top of the new math curriculum because they expect you to know all of it to tutor your child daily.

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