Pioneer Elementary

Pioneer Elementary operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in QUINCY, Washington, one of the schools within Quincy School District. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Quincy School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,162 students. Pioneer Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Pioneer Elementary records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pioneer Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 89% of students at Pioneer Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Grant County (around 69%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pioneer Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.5%; this one delivers 21.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Grant County) shows that median household earnings sit near $73,267, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Pioneer Elementary is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ancient Lakes Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Pioneer Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pioneer Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Pioneer Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 291). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Pioneer Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.