Camas Elementary

Set in Wapato, Washington, Camas Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school, overseen by Wapato School District. It hosts 452 students across grades pre-K through 2.

Wapato School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 3,198 students; Camas Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Camas Elementary reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder reads as 17% Native American, 4% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Yakima County as a whole is about 52% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Camas Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Yakima County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,656, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Yakima County runs 119 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students), of which Camas Elementary is one.

Satus Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Camas Elementary.

Camas Elementary operates from a town-center location.

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