Midway Elementary

Located at 502 SOUTH C ST, in MOSES LAKE, Washington, Midway Elementary is a small elementary-level community that hosts 222 students (grades K through 5), operated by Moses Lake School District. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Midway Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Moses Lake School District, a district that works with 8,430 students overall.

Demographically, Midway Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder looks like 36% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Grant County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Midway Elementary shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Midway Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,267, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Midway Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

Moses Lake Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Midway Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Midway Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 36.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Midway Elementary's enrollment has decreased 36% since 2018, when it stood at 346 (now 222). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 47% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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