Eastmont Junior High

Eastmont Junior High is a public medium-sized middle school in East Wenatchee, Washington. The school enrolls 687 students, from grades 7 through 9.

Eastmont School District has a total of 12 schools and 5,930 students, Eastmont Junior High among them.

Roughly 61% of students at Eastmont Junior High are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 36% White. Douglas County's residents are about 36% Hispanic, 25 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at the school number 36 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 19.1:1. That matches the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington fairly closely. Roughly 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Douglas County average 63%.

Douglas County census figures show that the median household income is $80,363, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 21 public schools in Douglas County, enrolling about 7,221 students in all.

The nearest public school is Sterling Junior High School, at about 0.3 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Enrollment is down 32% from 2020-21, when Eastmont Junior High had 1,014 students, to 2024-25, when it had 687. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.3:1 in 2020-21, and 19.1:1 in 2024-25.

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