Kettle Falls Elementary School

Kettle Falls Elementary School is an elementary school of compact scale in Kettle Falls, Washington, one of the schools within Kettle Falls School District, teacheing 242 students in grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 36% smaller than typical.

Kettle Falls School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,116 students; Kettle Falls Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kettle Falls Elementary School records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Native American.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Kettle Falls Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Kettle Falls Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stevens County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Kettle Falls Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -9.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Stevens County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $69,327 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Kettle Falls Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Stevens County (combined enrollment of about 7,726 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kettle Falls Early Learning Center, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kettle Falls Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 302 students in 2018 compared to 242 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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