Ellensburg Choice Schools

Ellensburg Choice Schools is a small combined-grade school for students in Ellensburg, Washington. The school enrolls 148 students, from kindergarten through 12. Average enrollment for combined schools in Washington is about 204, so this school runs 27% smaller than that.

Ellensburg Choice Schools is among 9 schools run by Ellensburg School District, which serves 3,408 students.

White students are the majority at Ellensburg Choice Schools, with 69% of enrollment. It is also 22% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. Kittitas County's residents are about 82% White, 13 points above the school's share. Ellensburg Choice Schools's diversity index is 47%, against a US figure of 70%.

Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 46%. For comparison, public schools in Kittitas County average 46%.

According to the American Community Survey, in Kittitas County, the median household income is $73,804, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. There are 21 public schools in Kittitas County, enrolling about 5,387 students in all.

The nearest other public school, Ellensburg High School, is about 0.1 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

In the federal locale system, Ellensburg Choice Schools is coded Town: Distant, for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

Ellensburg Choice Schools reported 74 students in 2020-21 and 148 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades.

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