Location: 2803 Road 88 Phone: 509-547-4542

Principal: John Wallwork 

Year Opened: 1983
Original Capacity: 1000 students
Enrollment: 1483
Mascot: Panthers
School Colors: Blue and Gold
Number of Teachers: 90
Total Staff: 146
Number of Portable Classrooms: 30

Ethnicity:
       White 49%         Hispanic 43% 
       Asian 3%            Multiracial 2%
       Black or African American 2% 
    American Indian or Alaskan Native . 5%

Free and Reduced Lunch: 45%
English Language Learners: 9%

School motto: We value success for all.

McLoughlin’s 2012-13 PEAK! Partners:
El Chapala Resaurant
and
PEMCO
John McLoughlin Middle School has one of the district’s largest student populations with an October 2010 enrollment of 1483.

The school derives its name from John McLoughlin (1784-1857). McLoughlin was the Chief Agent of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver. He came to be known as the “Father of Oregon” for his role in assisting the American cause in Oregon Country at a time when it was occupied by both Britain and the U.S. His general store in Oregon City became the famous last stop on the Oregon Trail.

McLoughlin Middle School was first known as Pasco Junior High and was renamed when the new school, Stevens Junior High, opened in about 1963. The previous McLoughlin school building is now Pasco City Hall and was Pasco High before that. School board vice president Bill Leggett is a former McLoughlin principal; he opened the new school in 1982.

As John McLoughlin was a notable figure in the Pacific Northwest’s formative years, so, too, is McLoughlin Middle School a notable school in Pasco. Each year, upwards of 700 people are drawn to visit the school’s Vision of Hope Museum. All 8th grade students read and study the Diary of Anne Frank in their language arts classes and then devote their energies to a project from that time period. Their work results in a collection of models, quilts, and other creations that are put on display for visitors. 

McLoughlin also earned the distinction as the middle school which collected the most food within the Tri-Cities for Second Harvest this past holiday. McLoughlin students collected 1747 pounds of food.