Mill A Elementary School

Mill An Elementary School, an one-room-style elementary school in COOK, Washington, part of Mill A School District, educates 43 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 89% leaner than the state mean of about 380.

Within Mill A School District, which oversees 2 schools and 68 students, Mill An Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Mill An Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 5% Pacific Islander, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Mill An Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mill An Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Around the school, Skamania County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,265 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Skamania County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,794 students), Mill An Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pacific Crest Innovation Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mill An Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 46.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mill An Elementary School has rose 105%, going from 21 students in 2018 to 43 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 1.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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