Mike Morris Elementary

Mike Morris Elementary operates as a close-knit elementary school in SOUTH BEND, Washington, run under South Bend School District. Current enrollment sits at 286 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

South Bend School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,102 students; Mike Morris Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mike Morris Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 36% White, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Pacific County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Mike Morris Elementary shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Mike Morris Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at Mike Morris Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Pacific County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mike Morris Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 37.4%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pacific County indicate median household income runs about $67,081, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pacific County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,243 students), Mike Morris Elementary is one campus in the mix.

South Bend High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Mike Morris Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mike Morris Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mike Morris Elementary has showed little movement, going from 283 students in 2018 to 286 in 2025.

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