Harrington High School

Harrington High School operates as a minimally staffed secondary school in Harrington, Washington, run under Harrington School District. Current enrollment sits at 44 students spanning grades 7 through 12. That puts it 92% smaller than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.

Harrington School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 114 students; Harrington High School is among them.

Demographically, Harrington High School logs that White students make up the majority at 80%; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Lincoln County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Harrington High School records 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.3:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 59% of students at Harrington High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lincoln County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Harrington High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Lincoln County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,512, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Lincoln County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,233 students), of which Harrington High School is one.

Harrington Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Harrington High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Harrington High School's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 57 (now 44). The White share of enrollment fell from 86% to 80% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 6.3:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Harrington High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.