Moses Lake High School

Moses Lake High School is a 9-12 campus of big scale in MOSES LAKE, Washington, run under Moses Lake School District, caters to 1,856 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 224% larger than typical.

Within Moses Lake School District, which oversees 20 schools and 8,430 students, Moses Lake High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moses Lake High School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 40% White, 4% multiracial. 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 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Moses Lake High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at Moses Lake High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Moses Lake High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -5.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Grant County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,267 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Moses Lake High School is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

The closest other public school is Digital Learning Center, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Moses Lake High School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 2,384 students in 2018 compared to 1,856 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 26.2:1 today.

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