Garden Heights Elementary

Garden Heights Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in MOSES LAKE, Washington, part of Moses Lake School District. Current enrollment sits at 324 students spanning grades K through 5.

Moses Lake School District runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,430 students. Garden Heights Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Garden Heights Elementary lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 45% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Garden Heights Elementary logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Garden Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.3%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Grant County put median household income runs about $73,267, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Garden Heights Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

Nearest neighbor: MLSD Open Doors Re-Engagement Program, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garden Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Garden Heights Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

Garden Heights Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 530 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 50% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.