Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center

The public high school Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center is located in Moses Lake, Washington. The school runs grades 10 through 12 and enrolls 53 students. By comparison, high schools in Washington enroll about 573 students on average.

Moses Lake School District counts 8,430 students in its 20 schools, and Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center is one of them.

Hispanic students are 60% of those enrolled at Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center. Beyond that, enrollment is 32% White, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. In Grant County overall, about 44% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.

Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center has 12.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 4.2:1. Across high schools in Washington, the average ratio is 21.6:1. The school has 6% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 69% average for public schools in Grant County is 63 points.

In Grant County, home to about 101,799 people, the median household earns about $73,267 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center shares Grant County with 60 other public schools.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Vanguard Academy, is about 0.2 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES describes the area around Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center as Town: Remote, meaning in a town far from an urbanized area.

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 53, down from 69 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 7.7 to 4.2 over 4 years.

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