Mary Walker High School

Mary Walker High School, a very small secondary school in SPRINGDALE, Washington, one of the schools within Mary Walker School District, serves 151 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 74% leaner than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.

Across the 4 schools in Mary Walker School District (558 students total), Mary Walker High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mary Walker High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 13% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, 9% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Mary Walker High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Stevens County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mary Walker High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 28.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Stevens County) shows that median household earnings sit near $69,327, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Stevens County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,726 students), Mary Walker High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Springdale Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mary Walker High School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary Walker High School has contracted 17%, going from 182 students in 2018 to 151 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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