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J M Weatherwax High School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About J M Weatherwax High School
Located at 410 North G Street, in Aberdeen, Washington, J M Weatherwax High School is a well-populated 9-12 campus that hosts 919 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Aberdeen School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so J M Weatherwax High School sits 60% larger than that benchmark.
Within Aberdeen School District, which oversees 13 schools and 3,183 students, J M Weatherwax High School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, J M Weatherwax High School shows that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 37% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Grays Harbor County as a whole is about 79% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, J M Weatherwax High School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at J M Weatherwax High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, J M Weatherwax High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -6.4 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Grays Harbor County put the typical household earns roughly $64,414 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Grays Harbor County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,564 students), of which J M Weatherwax High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Twin Harbors A Branch of New Market Skills Center, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J M Weatherwax High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts J M Weatherwax High School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 29.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. J M Weatherwax High School's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 945 (now 919). Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.
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