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Enrollment
2,359
High
DISTRICT 683 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001689
Davis High School
212 S 6th Ave, Yakima, WA 98902 · (509) 573-2500 · Yakima County
GRADES 09–12HIGH13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,359 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
116 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 54.3:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
2,025 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 714 | 30% |
| Grade 10 | 600 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 450 | 19% |
| Grade 12 | 595 | 25% |
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
46.4%
WA avg 58.4% . +37.1pp since 2014
Math
14.7%
WA avg 51.2% . +12.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 37 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.4% | 14.7% |
| 2023-24 | 52.1% | 15.8% |
| 2022-23 | 49.4% | 15.8% |
| 2021-22 | 52.3% | 13.5% |
| 2018-19 | 49.5% | 22.5% |
| 2017-18 | 57.8% | 21.5% |
| 2016-17 | 20.1% | 6.8% |
| 2015-16 | 16.5% | 14.0% |
| 2014-15 | 9.3% | 2.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 23% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Washington's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Davis High School
Davis High School's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis High School this school | 2,359 | 85.8% | 34.8% |
| Sunnyside High School Sunnyside | 2,122 | 82.9% | 28.6% |
| Othello High School Othello | 1,338 | 81.8% | N/A |
| Grandview High School Grandview | 1,160 | 81.1% | 27.6% |
| Eisenhower High School Yakima | 2,258 | 78.5% | 31.9% |
| Toppenish High School TOPPENISH | 969 | 79.8% | 27.8% |
Matched among Washington high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Davis High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #204 of 271 | #7 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #267 of 321 ▼ 21 | #8 of 16 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.4% | #246 of 327 ▼ 25 | #8 of 16 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.4pp | #101 of 259 | #5 of 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,359 | #8 of 570 | #1 of 31 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.4:1 | #142 of 311 | #8 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.5% | #307 of 316 | #10 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.8% | #14 of 386 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #150 of 164 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,359
-192 (-8%) vs 2020
+49% since 1990-91, when it was 1,588
Student : Teacher
20.4:1
was 21.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,359 | 115.8 | 20.4:1 | 86% (2,025) |
| 2023-24 | 2,218 | 120.8 | 18.4:1 | 86% (1,902) |
| 2022-23 | 2,330 | 123.4 | 18.9:1 | 83% (1,925) |
| 2020-21 | 2,551 | 121 | 21.1:1 | 75% (1,919) |
| 2017-18 | 2,410 | 108.6 | 22.2:1 | 68% (1,644) |
| 2015-16 | 2,164 | 104 | 20.8:1 | 82% (1,766) |
| 2010-11 | 2,053 | 94 | 21.8:1 | 73% (1,502) |
| 2000-01 | 1,619 | 75 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 1,588 | 79 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Davis High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (2,410 to 2,359); teachers up 7% (108.6 to 115.8).
About Davis High School
Davis High School is a large high school in Washington, located in Yakima. It has an enrollment of 2,359 students in grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in Washington enroll around 573, and this school is 312% bigger than that mark.
Davis High School is one of 27 schools in Yakima School District, which enrolls 15,488 students in total.
Davis High School is 88% Hispanic by enrollment. The remaining shares are 8% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Yakima County's population at about 52%. The diversity index for Davis High School is 21%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 115.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 20.4 students per teacher. The gap from the 21.6:1 average for high schools in Washington is 1.2 students per teacher. Roughly 86% of students at Davis High School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The 77% average for public schools in Yakima County is 9 points lower.
Davis High School is a top-10% school in Washington on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 22.6% with an actual 34.8%.
In the surrounding county, Yakima County, median household income comes to about $70,656, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. The county's public schools total 119, with about 52,145 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, ESD 105 Open Doors, is the closest to Davis High School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Davis High School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's student count fell 8% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Davis High School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yakima School District
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
- Adams Elementary SchoolElementary · 643 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
Other Davis High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Davis High. Davis High School is the largest of the 3.
- Davis HighKAYSVILLE, UT · 2,238 students
- Davis High SchoolDavis, OK · 258 students
Nearby schools
- ESD 105 Open Doors0.4 mi · 120
- Mckinley Elementary School0.6 mi · 403
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.8 mi · 455
- Garfield Elementary School0.9 mi · 507
- Franklin Middle School0.9 mi · 848
- Juvenile Detention Center1.1 mi · 23
Frequently asked questions
About Davis High SchoolHow many students attend Davis High School?
Davis High School enrolls approximately 2,359 students in grades 09-12.
Is Davis High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Davis High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Davis High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Davis High School is approximately 20.4:1 (116 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Davis High School?
At Davis High School, the student body is approximately 8% White, 88% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Davis High School public or private?
Davis High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Yakima School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.