Garfield Elementary School

Garfield Elementary School is a primary school of compact scale in TOPPENISH, Washington, operated by Toppenish School District, teacheing 310 students in grades K through 5.

Toppenish School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,646 students; Garfield Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Garfield Elementary School lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 52% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Garfield Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at Garfield Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Yakima County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Garfield Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.4%; this one delivers 21.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Yakima County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $70,656 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Garfield Elementary School is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students).

Nearest neighbor: Toppenish Pre School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garfield Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.3%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 415 students in 2018 compared to 310 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 85% to 94% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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