Goldendale High School

Goldendale High School is a secondary school of close-knit scale in GOLDENDALE, Washington, one of the schools within Goldendale School District, hosting 322 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 44% below typical.

Across the 5 schools in Goldendale School District (3,013 students total), Goldendale High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Goldendale High School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Native American. By comparison, Klickitat County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Klickitat County's rate of about 55%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Goldendale High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.6%; this one delivers 44.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Klickitat County reports that median household earnings sit near $71,042, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Klickitat County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,803 students), of which Goldendale High School is one.

The closest other public school is Goldendale Support Service Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Goldendale High School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 304 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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