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College Place High School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 23 points since 2017, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About College Place High School
College Place High School, a compact four-year high school in College Place, Washington, part of College Place School District, works with 486 students, covering grades 9 through 12.
College Place School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,531 students. College Place High School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, College Place High School records that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 43% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Walla Walla County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, College Place High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -6.6 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Walla Walla County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,202, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. College Place High School is one of 33 public schools in Walla Walla County (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students).
Nearest neighbor: College Place Open Doors Program, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, College Place High School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Place High School has grew 17%, going from 416 students in 2018 to 486 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 35% to 43%.
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Related schools
- Davis ElementaryElementary · 698 students
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- College Place Open Doors ProgramHigh · 13 students
- Davis ElementaryElementary · 698 students
- John Sager Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- College Place Open Doors ProgramHigh · 13 students
- College Place Open Doors Program0.0 mi · 13
- John Sager Middle School0.1 mi · 334
- Davis Elementary1.2 mi · 698
- Walla Walla Center for Children and Families2.4 mi · 108
- Head Start2.4 mi · 112
- Garrison Middle School2.7 mi · 546