Paideia High School

Set in Valley, Washington, Paideia High School is a very small four-year high school, overseen by Valley School District. It enrolls 23 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 96% smaller than the state mean of about 573.

Valley School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,099 students. Paideia High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Paideia High School logs that 100% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Paideia High School lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.6:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, Stevens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,327 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Stevens County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,726 students), Paideia High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Valley School, around 0.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Paideia High School operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Paideia High School's enrollment has edged down 64% since 2018, when it stood at 64 (now 23). Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 83% to 100%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 8.5:1 in 2018 to 3.6:1 today.

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