Keewaydin Discovery Center

Keewaydin Discovery Center is a very small elementary school in Kennewick School District, located in KENNEWICK, Washington. Its grade span covers pre-K, with 143 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.

Kennewick School District is responsible for 31 schools, Keewaydin Discovery Center included, with 18,826 students in all.

At Keewaydin Discovery Center, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 48%. Smaller groups are 38% White, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. County-wide, 26% of Benton County residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at Keewaydin Discovery Center are from different groups.

Keewaydin Discovery Center lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 14.3 students per teacher. The school's 14.3:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for elementary schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 5% of the student body. The rate at public schools in Benton County averages 49%, higher than here.

In Benton County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $89,874 a year, roughly 33% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Keewaydin Discovery Center, Benton County has 69 public schools.

A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Westgate Elementary School, is the closest to Keewaydin Discovery Center. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Keewaydin Discovery Center.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

The school's enrollment decreased 37% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Students per teacher dropped from 20.7 in 2020-21 to 14.3 in 2024-25.

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