Graham Kapowsin High School

Graham Kapowsin High School operates as a well-populated four-year high school in Graham, Washington, overseen by Bethel School District. Current enrollment sits at 2,087 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 264% above the state mean of about 573.

Bethel School District runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 21,732 students. Graham Kapowsin High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Graham Kapowsin High School shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 20% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Graham Kapowsin High School lists 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Graham Kapowsin High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Graham Kapowsin High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 48.1%; actual is 35.4%, a gap of -12.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pierce County) logs that median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Graham Kapowsin High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Frontier Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Graham Kapowsin High School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

Graham Kapowsin High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Graham Kapowsin High School has rose 6%, going from 1,970 students in 2018 to 2,087 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 63% to 45% over that span.

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