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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Mcclure Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001699
Mcclure Elementary School
1222 S 22nd Ave, Yakima, WA 98902 · (509) 573-1300 · Yakima County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
468 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
27.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.8pp since 2014
Math
18.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -12.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.7% | 18.6% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 21.2% |
| 2022-23 | 26.1% | 22.3% |
| 2021-22 | 22.9% | 20.6% |
| 2018-19 | 37.6% | 36.1% |
| 2017-18 | 39.3% | 33.2% |
| 2016-17 | 27.9% | 32.1% |
| 2015-16 | 29.5% | 33.8% |
| 2014-15 | 29.6% | 31.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mcclure Elementary School
Mcclure Elementary School's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mcclure Elementary School this school | 559 | 83.7% | 25.9% |
| Robertson Elementary Yakima | 473 | 82.5% | 32.4% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary WENATCHEE | 604 | 80.6% | N/A |
| Union Gap School Union Gap | 558 | 88.5% | 44.8% |
| Ridgeview Elementary Yakima | 533 | 87.2% | 29.4% |
| Hiawatha Elementary School Othello | 579 | 83.6% | N/A |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mcclure Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #860 of 936 | #30 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #1,049 of 1,103 ▼ 38 | #42 of 45 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #982 of 1,102 ▼ 52 | #28 of 45 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.4pp | #476 of 928 | #22 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #156 of 1,268 | #9 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #436 of 1,085 | #15 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.5% | #965 of 1,088 | #26 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.7% | #80 of 1,169 | #27 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.1% | #557 of 778 | #28 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
559
-43 (-7%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 518
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 559 | 36.4 | 15.4:1 | 84% (468) |
| 2023-24 | 544 | 38.7 | 14.1:1 | 86% (469) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 38.6 | 14.5:1 | 79% (443) |
| 2020-21 | 602 | 34 | 17.7:1 | 73% (439) |
| 2017-18 | 622 | 33.6 | 18.5:1 | 68% (420) |
| 2015-16 | 618 | 31 | 19.9:1 | 85% (528) |
| 2010-11 | 595 | 32 | 18.6:1 | 74% (438) |
| 2000-01 | 602 | 32 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 518 | 22 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mcclure Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (622 to 559); teachers up 8% (33.6 to 36.4).
About Mcclure Elementary School
Mcclure Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in Yakima, Washington. It had 559 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
Besides Mcclure Elementary School, Yakima School District runs 26 other schools. The district enrolls 15,488 students.
About 78% of the student body at Mcclure Elementary School is Hispanic. Other students are 17% White and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Yakima County residents are about 52% Hispanic. A diversity index of 37% means there is a 37% chance two randomly chosen students at Mcclure Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Mcclure Elementary School, 84% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Mcclure Elementary School, the prediction is 24.0% and the result is 25.9%.
The school is in Yakima County, where median household income comes to about $70,656, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Yakima County counts 119 public schools with about 52,145 students.
The closest school to Mcclure Elementary School is Franklin Middle School, located about 0.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 25.9% is below the 30.0% average for nearby schools.
Mcclure Elementary School is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 7%. By 2024-25, the school had 15.4 students per teacher, compared with 17.7 in 2020-21.
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Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yakima School District
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Other Mcclure Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mcclure Elementary. Mcclure Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Mcclure Elementary SchoolGrandview, WA · 543 students
- McClure Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 383 students
- McClure ElemTopeka, KS · 301 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Middle School0.8 mi · 848
- Nob Hill Elementary School0.8 mi · 339
- Mckinley Elementary School0.9 mi · 403
- Lewis & Clark Middle School0.9 mi · 815
- Roosevelt Elementary School1.2 mi · 455
- Hoover Elementary School1.3 mi · 582
Frequently asked questions
About Mcclure Elementary SchoolHow large is Mcclure Elementary School?
Mcclure Elementary School enrolls approximately 559 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Mcclure Elementary School serve?
Mcclure Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Mcclure Elementary School?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at Mcclure Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Mcclure Elementary School?
Student demographics at Mcclure Elementary School are roughly 17% White, 78% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is Mcclure Elementary School in?
Mcclure Elementary School is part of Yakima School District.
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