Marysville Getchell High School

Marysville Getchell High School is a substantial senior high in Marysville, Washington, part of Marysville School District. The school caters to 1,381 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 141% above the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.

Marysville School District runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 9,760 students. Marysville Getchell High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Marysville Getchell High School logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 10% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Marysville Getchell High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Marysville Getchell High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.6%; actual is 35.6%, a gap of -15.0 points.

Around the school, Snohomish County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Marysville Getchell High School is one.

The closest other public school is Cedarcrest School, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marysville Getchell High School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

Marysville Getchell High School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marysville Getchell High School has shrank 18%, going from 1,674 students in 2018 to 1,381 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 55% to 46%.

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