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Enrollment
860
High
DISTRICT 442 · STATE 573
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·QUINCY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530708001055
Quincy High School
403 Jackrabbit Street NE, QUINCY, WA 98844 · (509) 787-3501 · Grant County
GRADES 09–12HIGH32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL860 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of Washington public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public high schools
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 21.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
675 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 242 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 218 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 226 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 174 | 20% |
Student demographics
22%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Quincy School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
47.6%
WA avg 58.4% . +39.5pp since 2014
Math
12.7%
WA avg 51.2% . +5.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 40 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.6% | 12.7% |
| 2023-24 | 54.3% | 14.2% |
| 2022-23 | 54.5% | 14.5% |
| 2021-22 | 42.9% | 17.2% |
| 2018-19 | 55.7% | 16.9% |
| 2017-18 | 54.4% | 18.4% |
| 2016-17 | 6.8% | 10.7% |
| 2015-16 | 11.3% | 10.3% |
| 2014-15 | 8.1% | 7.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Quincy High School
Quincy High School's state test result (31.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quincy High School this school | 860 | 78.5% | 31.6% |
| Toppenish High School TOPPENISH | 969 | 79.8% | 27.8% |
| Grandview High School Grandview | 1,160 | 81.1% | 27.6% |
| Othello High School Othello | 1,338 | 81.8% | N/A |
| Wapato High School Wapato | 853 | 81.0% | 21.1% |
| Sunnyside High School Sunnyside | 2,122 | 82.9% | 28.6% |
Matched among Washington high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Quincy High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Grant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.6% | #221 of 271 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.7% | #288 of 321 ▼ 18 | #8 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #237 of 327 ▼ 30 | #4 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.1pp | #111 of 259 | #4 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 860 | #172 of 570 | #3 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #68 of 311 | #1 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.5% | #306 of 316 | #7 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #33 of 386 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.2% | #85 of 136 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
860
+25 (+3%) vs 2020
+131% since 1990-91, when it was 372
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 19.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 860 | 47.1 | 18.3:1 | 78% (675) |
| 2023-24 | 900 | 47 | 19.1:1 | 79% (709) |
| 2022-23 | 895 | 47.5 | 18.9:1 | 87% (783) |
| 2020-21 | 835 | 43 | 19.4:1 | 78% (652) |
| 2017-18 | 802 | 42.9 | 18.7:1 | 77% (615) |
| 2015-16 | 830 | 39 | 21.3:1 | 78% (649) |
| 2010-11 | 640 | 36 | 17.8:1 | 74% (473) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 34 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 21 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quincy High School.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (802 to 860); teachers up 10% (42.9 to 47.1).
About Quincy High School
Quincy High School is a high school in QUINCY, Washington, and it is part of Quincy School District. It reports enrollment of 860 students in grades 9 through 12. Across high schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 573.
The Quincy School District system has 9 schools and 3,162 students.
Hispanic students are 88% of those enrolled at Quincy High School. The remaining shares are 11% White. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Grant County's population at about 44%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 22%.
On staff are 47.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.3:1. The average for high schools in Washington is 21.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 78% of students at Quincy High School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Grant County is 69%.
Quincy High School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 43% of Washington public high schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Quincy High School is +4.0 points: 31.6% actual, 27.5% predicted.
For the population of Grant County, the median household earns about $73,267 a year, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Quincy High School shares Grant County with 60 other public schools.
Mountain View Elementary is about 0.7 miles from Quincy High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 7 other public schools are within five miles. Quincy High School places 1st of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is Town: Distant: the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 25 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 19.4:1 to 18.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Grant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
101,799
Census ACS
Median income
$73,267
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
20,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Quincy School District
- Quincy Middle SchoolMiddle · 717 students
- Ancient Lakes ElementaryElementary · 385 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 291 students
- Monument ElementaryElementary · 289 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 280 students
- George ElementaryElementary · 163 students
Other schools in QUINCY
- Quincy Middle SchoolMiddle · 717 students
- Ancient Lakes ElementaryElementary · 385 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 291 students
- Monument ElementaryElementary · 289 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 280 students
- George ElementaryElementary · 163 students
Other Quincy High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Quincy High. Quincy High School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Quincy HighQuincy, MA · 1,514 students
- Quincy High SchoolQUINCY, MI · 346 students
Nearby schools
- Mountain View Elementary0.7 mi · 280
- Quincy Middle School0.9 mi · 717
- Ancient Lakes Elementary0.9 mi · 385
- Pioneer Elementary1.3 mi · 291
- Monument Elementary2.1 mi · 289
- Quincy Innovation Academy Big Picture2.2 mi · 24
Frequently asked questions
About Quincy High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Quincy High School?
Quincy High School enrolls approximately 860 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Quincy High School serve?
Quincy High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Quincy High School?
Approximately 18.3:1 students per teacher at Quincy High School.
How diverse is Quincy High School?
Quincy High School reports a student body of 11% White, 88% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Quincy High School in?
Quincy High School is part of Quincy School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.