Palouse at Garfield Middle School

Palouse at Garfield Middle School is a micro-enrollment middle school in Palouse, Washington, overseen by Palouse School District. The school serves 34 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 94% below typical.

Palouse School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 191 students; Palouse at Garfield Middle School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Palouse at Garfield Middle School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 6% multiracial, 6% Native American. By comparison, Whitman County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Palouse at Garfield Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 49.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Whitman County put the typical household earns roughly $55,406 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Whitman County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,753 students), of which Palouse at Garfield Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Palouse High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Palouse at Garfield Middle School. On composite proficiency, Palouse at Garfield Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Palouse at Garfield Middle School's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 42 (now 34). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 10% to 0%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Palouse at Garfield Middle School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.