Monument Elementary

Monument Elementary, an intimate primary school in QUINCY, Washington, operated by Quincy School District, serves 289 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Monument Elementary sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Quincy School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,162 students; Monument Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Monument Elementary lists that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White. By comparison, Grant County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 74% of students at Monument Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Monument Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.8%; this one delivers 25.9%.

Around the school, census data for Grant County shows median household earnings sit near $73,267, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Monument Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

Quincy Innovation Academy Big Picture is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monument Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monument Elementary has contracted 57%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 289 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 8% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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