Mount Adams Middle School

Located at 541 Signal Peak Road, in White Swan, Washington, Mount Adams Middle School is a very small middle-grades school that instructs 136 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Mount Adams School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Mount Adams Middle School sits 76% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Mount Adams School District (839 students total), Mount Adams Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mount Adams Middle School records that the most-represented group is Native American (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Yakima County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mount Adams Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.1%, the actual is 9.2%, a residual of -6.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Yakima County put the typical household earns roughly $70,656 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Mount Adams Middle School is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students).

Nearest neighbor: White Swan High School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Mount Adams Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.1%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Adams Middle School's enrollment has climbed 3% since 2018, when it stood at 132 (now 136). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 30% to 38%.

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