Mattawa Elementary

As an intimate elementary-level community in Mattawa, Washington, Mattawa Elementary works with 199 students from grade K, operated by Wahluke School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Mattawa Elementary sits 48% below that benchmark.

Mattawa Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Wahluke School District, a district that instructs 2,455 students overall.

On demographics, Mattawa Elementary shows that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Grant County's rate of about 69%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mattawa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.6%, the actual is 12.9%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Grant County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,267 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Grant County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students), of which Mattawa Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Mattawa Elementary Pre-School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mattawa Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.7%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 54%: 436 students in 2018 compared to 199 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 93% to 99%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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