Mountain View Elementary

Set in QUINCY, Washington, Mountain View Elementary is a small elementary school, overseen by Quincy School District. It enrolls 280 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Mountain View Elementary sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Quincy School District, which oversees 9 schools and 3,162 students, Mountain View Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mountain View Elementary shows that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% 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 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Mountain View Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Grant County's rate of about 69%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mountain View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Grant County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,267, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Grant County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students), of which Mountain View Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ancient Lakes Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mountain View Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Mountain View Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 458 (now 280).

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