Outlook Elementary School

Outlook Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Outlook, Washington, operated by Sunnyside School District. The school enrolls 403 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Sunnyside School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,151 students. Outlook Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Outlook Elementary School reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 52% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Outlook Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Yakima County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Outlook Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.4%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of +7.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Yakima County indicate 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%. Across Yakima County's 119 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students), Outlook Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Granger Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Outlook Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 24.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Outlook Elementary School's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 587 (now 403). The White share of enrollment edged down from 7% to 2% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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