Okanogan Outreach Alternative School

Okanogan Outreach Alternative School is a high school of very small scale in Okanogan, Washington, operated by Okanogan School District, enrolling 72 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 87% below the state mean of about 573.

Within Okanogan School District, which oversees 6 schools and 1,041 students, Okanogan Outreach Alternative School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Okanogan Outreach Alternative School records that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 24% multiracial, 17% Hispanic, 15% Native American. By comparison, Okanogan County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 36.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Okanogan County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Okanogan County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,207 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Okanogan County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,538 students), Okanogan Outreach Alternative School is one campus in the mix.

Okanogan Co Juvenile Detention is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Okanogan Outreach Alternative School.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Okanogan Outreach Alternative School has contracted 6%, going from 77 students in 2018 to 72 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 77.0:1 in 2018 to 36.0:1 today.

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