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Enrollment
403
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001700
Mckinley Elementary School
621 S 13th Ave, Yakima, WA 98902 · (509) 573-1400 · Yakima County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL403 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
365 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 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
23%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
18.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -9.2pp since 2014
Math
13.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.6% | 13.8% |
| 2023-24 | 24.0% | 18.6% |
| 2022-23 | 25.6% | 16.3% |
| 2021-22 | 28.3% | 15.7% |
| 2018-19 | 28.3% | 29.2% |
| 2017-18 | 38.3% | 32.6% |
| 2016-17 | 33.2% | 32.3% |
| 2015-16 | 38.9% | 33.2% |
| 2014-15 | 27.8% | 26.8% |
% 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
22.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Mckinley Elementary School
Mckinley Elementary School's state test result (22.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mckinley Elementary School this school | 403 | 90.6% | 22.0% |
| Brewster Elementary School BREWSTER | 425 | 91.8% | 31.8% |
| Kirkwood Elementary School TOPPENISH | 387 | 90.2% | 21.1% |
| Rowena Chess Elementary PASCO | 436 | 91.1% | 11.5% |
| Adams Elementary Wapato | 394 | 91.1% | 16.5% |
| Whittier Elementary PASCO | 378 | 89.2% | 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 Mckinley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #890 of 936 | #35 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #1,084 of 1,103 ▼ 44 | #44 of 45 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.6% | #1,071 of 1,102 ▼ 39 | #42 of 45 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.7pp | #124 of 928 | #7 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 403 | #622 of 1,268 | #34 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #428 of 1,085 | #14 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.5% | #1,039 of 1,088 | #34 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.6% | #25 of 1,169 | #12 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #532 of 778 | #25 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
403
-35 (-8%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 475
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 403 | 26.3 | 15.3:1 | 91% (365) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 30.7 | 13.4:1 | 92% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 28.6 | 14.5:1 | 89% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 24 | 18.3:1 | 81% (353) |
| 2017-18 | 454 | 24.5 | 18.5:1 | 79% (360) |
| 2015-16 | 470 | 25 | 18.8:1 | 89% (416) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 21 | 21.8:1 | 79% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 407 | 22 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 475 | 20 | 23.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mckinley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (454 to 403); teachers up 7% (24.5 to 26.3).
About Mckinley Elementary School
Yakima, Washington, is home to Mckinley Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The latest federal count shows 403 students in kindergarten through 5.
District-wide, Yakima School District has 27 schools and 15,488 students.
Mckinley Elementary School enrolls a student body that is 88% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 8% White and 2% multiracial. In Yakima County overall, about 52% of residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Mckinley Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 23%.
Teacher staffing is 26.3 full-time equivalents, or about 15.3 students per teacher. The 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is higher than this school's figure. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 91%. Across public schools in Yakima County, the average is 77%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Mckinley Elementary School would score about 19.4%. It scores 22.0%, 2.6 points above that figure.
County data help place the school in context: in Yakima County, median household income is about $70,656, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. The public schools of Yakima County number 119 and enroll about 52,145.
Franklin Middle School is the public school closest to Mckinley Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Mckinley Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Mckinley Elementary School ranks 6th of 6 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 22.0% against a local average of 29.3%.
Locale data from NCES put Mckinley Elementary School inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Mckinley Elementary School had 438 students in 2020-21 and 403 in 2024-25, an 8% decrease. The ratio was 18.3:1 in 2020-21 and 15.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Mckinley Elementary schools
55 other US public schools in 19 states are named Mckinley Elementary. Mckinley Elementary School is the 21st largest of the 56.
- McKinley Elementary SchoolNEWARK, NJ · 917 students
- McKinley ElementaryStockton, CA · 705 students
- McKinley ElementaryFresno, CA · 671 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolBeaverton, OR · 666 students
- McKinley ElementaryHAM LAKE, MN · 636 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Middle School0.5 mi · 848
- Davis High School0.6 mi · 2,359
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.6 mi · 455
- Mcclure Elementary School0.9 mi · 559
- ESD 105 Open Doors1.0 mi · 120
- Hoover Elementary School1.0 mi · 582
Frequently asked questions
About Mckinley Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mckinley Elementary School?
Mckinley Elementary School enrolls approximately 403 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Mckinley Elementary School serve?
Mckinley Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Mckinley Elementary School?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at Mckinley Elementary School.
How diverse is Mckinley Elementary School?
Mckinley Elementary School reports a student body of 8% White, 88% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Mckinley Elementary School in?
Mckinley Elementary School is part of Yakima School District.
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