Lewis & Clark Middle School

Lewis & Clark Middle School is one of the reasonably sized intermediate schools in Yakima, Washington, overseen by Yakima School District, with 815 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 41% larger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 577 students.

Lewis & Clark Middle School is one of 27 schools operated by Yakima School District, a district that serves 15,488 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lewis & Clark Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). The remainder looks like 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 52% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Lewis & Clark Middle School has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. The state averages about 18.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Yakima County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Lewis & Clark Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.7%, the actual is 22.5%, a residual of +2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Yakima County indicate median household income runs about $70,656, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Yakima County's 119 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students), Lewis & Clark Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Ridgeview Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lewis & Clark Middle School. On composite proficiency, Lewis & Clark Middle School comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewis & Clark Middle School has decreased 7%, going from 876 students in 2018 to 815 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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