Hutton Elementary

Set in Spokane, Washington, Hutton Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school, one of the schools within Spokane School District. It caters to 492 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Hutton Elementary sits 29% larger than that benchmark.

Spokane School District comprises 62 schools with combined enrollment of 28,853 students; Hutton Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hutton Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Spokane County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hutton Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 60.3%; Hutton Elementary posts 73.4%, +13.1 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Spokane County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,582 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Spokane County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students), Hutton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sacajawea Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hutton Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hutton Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.8%.

Hutton Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 591 students in 2018 compared to 492 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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