Discovery Early Learning Center

Discovery Early Learning Center is an elementary school located in Yakima, Washington, in Yakima County. It had 303 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 20% lower.

Yakima School District runs Discovery Early Learning Center along with 26 other schools, enrolling 15,488 students in total.

Roughly 85% of students at Discovery Early Learning Center are Hispanic. Other groups make up 12% White. County-wide, 52% of Yakima County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for Discovery Early Learning Center is 26%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

A staff of 16 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.9:1. Compared with the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 77% for public schools in Yakima County.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Yakima County show that median household income comes to about $70,656, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. The county's public schools total 119, with about 52,145 students.

Robertson Elementary, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

NCES assigns Discovery Early Learning Center the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Discovery Early Learning Center enrolled 25 in 2020-21 and 303 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.5:1 in 2020-21, and 18.9:1 in 2024-25.

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