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Connell High School
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Connell High School
Connell High School, an average-sized secondary school in Connell, Washington, one of the schools within North Franklin School District, works with 615 students, covering grades 9 through 12.
Across the 9 schools in North Franklin School District (2,078 students total), Connell High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Connell High School records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 25% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.
On the resource side, Connell High School lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Connell High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of -3.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Franklin County put median household income runs about $86,714, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Franklin County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,403 students), of which Connell High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Robert L Olds Junior High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Connell High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.
Connell High School operates from a town-center location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Connell High School's enrollment has ticked up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 596 (now 615). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 31% to 25%.
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