Mt. Stuart Elementary

Mt. Stuart Elementary is a primary school of reasonably sized scale in Ellensburg, Washington, part of Ellensburg School District, enrolling 336 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 9 schools in Ellensburg School District (3,408 students total), Mt. Stuart Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mt. Stuart Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 31% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Kittitas County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Mt. Stuart Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Mt. Stuart Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -4.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kittitas County put the typical household earns roughly $73,804 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kittitas County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,387 students), Mt. Stuart Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Early Learning Center, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt. Stuart Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.8%.

Mt. Stuart Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 32%: 494 students in 2018 compared to 336 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 69% to 59%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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