Columbia Middle School

Columbia Middle School is a sprawling middle school in MOSES LAKE, Washington, operated by Moses Lake School District. The school educates 875 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Columbia Middle School sits 52% above that benchmark.

Moses Lake School District comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 8,430 students; Columbia Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Columbia Middle School shows that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 45% White, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Columbia Middle School lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.9:1, putting Columbia Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Columbia Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.7%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -3.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,267, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Columbia Middle School is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

MLSD Open Doors Re-Engagement Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Columbia Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 37.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 934 students in 2018 compared to 875 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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