Garfield at Palouse High School

Set in Palouse, Washington, Garfield at Palouse High School is a micro-enrollment secondary school, run under Garfield School District. It teaches 45 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 92% smaller than typical.

Garfield School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 127 students; Garfield at Palouse High School is among them.

Demographically, Garfield at Palouse High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). The remainder reads as 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Whitman County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 32.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Garfield at Palouse High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Whitman County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Garfield at Palouse High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Whitman County) records that the typical household earns roughly $55,406 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Garfield at Palouse High School is one of 28 public schools in Whitman County (combined enrollment of about 4,753 students).

Nearest neighbor: Palouse High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Garfield at Palouse High School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 54.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garfield at Palouse High School has expanded 67%, going from 27 students in 2018 to 45 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 7% to 2% over that span.

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