My older daughter just finished her 3rd year at Washington and my younger daughter will be starting in the fall.On the balance, our experience with the school has been positive. The teachers are mostly good with just a few clunkers. The experience with the student cohort has been good, and there are plenty of opportunities for extracurricular activities with the bands and various before and after school activities.

My 7th grade year there was AWESOME! I made great friends and the teachers were great and supportive of me and my choices. 👍

Awful principle, but the band teacher is good. I also like the LA/SS teacher I had in 6th grade last year. She was really nice.

Best place/s ever have a great bowling alley and they have a great football team. 10/10 recommend

Curriculum quality is reportedly patchy and stratified, but my sons have both had a great experience. Majority of their teachers have been extremely motivated and invested. Workload can be overwhelming at times, and the official if its late, its a zero policy is draconian, but fortunately most teachers are more flexible than that. Music program is a powerhouse--its actually cool to be in band at WMS. Perhaps this reflects the dearth of bullying relative to what I recall from my own youth. School officially has a zero tolerance policy for bullying (seems to also like the word zero in its policies). Anyway, students seem unusually secure and self-confident for periadolescents. Like any public school, resources are stretched thin, and this can be felt sometimes in the facilities, and certainly in the IT support--seems like a new website system gets launched every year, each one worse than its predecessor. But until we agree to pay higher taxes, thats life. Although the school does a remarkable job leveraging its fundraising capabilities. Current Principal is quite good, and very open minded--perhaps too much so sometimes. The Kindle experiment was short-lived.

Honestly, I like WMS. I go there and all my teachers are really nice. The music program is also AMAZING (my favorite class). The principle was kinda shmeh(if you know what I mean), but the most annoying thing about the school is that theyre always saying be your B.E.S.T. self!!!!! and it irritates me and all of my friends._.

Ms. Follmer is the worst principal ever she doesn’t care about kids and her fashion sense is offensive to anyone with eyes. Thank god she is retiring. She is worthless, don’t even try to deal with her. It’s like talking to a loaf of bread. She is as unapproachable as a burgan.And don’t get me started on Mr. Mullahy. He is the worst middle school teacher ever. He makes fun of kids in front of the class, he tells kids they are gross or look gross to their face. I haven’t learned anything in his class, the information I need for the test I learn five minutes before I have to take the test from my friend.But Ms. Hill is one of the best teachers ever. She taught me so much and made class interesting and fun. She was also so sweet and made our school bearable.

The school has great language programs, excellent choral, orchestra, and band instruction, and strong leadership. Ive had three boys go thru WMS and out of it, they all have a very strong math and science foundation.

I GO THERE I GIVE IT A 5 NICE SCHOOL

Very segregated, the school is a pig sty and many of the teachers are not very good. All the school cares about is the music program which isnt even that good even though everybody says its good.

I go there now and its great

Great school y u guys be hatin

Jimis old school. nuff said.

We need a separate French and Japanese teacher, shes probably being overworked.

Not a great school at all, kids are very disrespectful and trashy, i volunteered there and it was just garbage, some kids dress up in inappropriate / trashy clothes, they also disrupt the residents in the nearby apartment building to with their loudness and obnoxiousness, DOESNT enforce good behavior or encourage being a better person, the principle is annoyingly rude, perhaps the most rude person, i had a friend complain to him about the noisiness of the kids and the principle was very rude about it, There are better schools in the Seattle area would not recommend coming to this school

Awful principle, awesome band teacher and music program.

I didnt like this school... at all.

Its a good school

WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL SUCK!!!!!!!