Chief Kamiakin Elementary School

Chief Kamiakin Elementary School operates as a large K-5 school in Sunnyside, Washington, one of the schools within Sunnyside School District. Current enrollment sits at 575 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Chief Kamiakin Elementary School sits 51% above that benchmark.

Chief Kamiakin Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Sunnyside School District, a district that teaches 6,151 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Chief Kamiakin Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest reads as 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 52% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Chief Kamiakin Elementary School reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Yakima County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chief Kamiakin Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.4%; this one delivers 28.5%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Yakima County) shows that median household income runs about $70,656, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Yakima County's 119 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students), Chief Kamiakin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Harrison Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Chief Kamiakin Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chief Kamiakin Elementary School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 26.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Chief Kamiakin Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 760 (now 575).

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