Rowena Chess Elementary

Rowena Chess Elementary, a medium-sized elementary-level community in PASCO, Washington, overseen by Pasco School District, caters to 436 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Pasco School District, which oversees 28 schools and 18,913 students, Rowena Chess Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Rowena Chess Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 55% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Rowena Chess Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Rowena Chess Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Franklin County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rowena Chess Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.1%, the actual is 11.5%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,714, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Franklin County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,403 students), of which Rowena Chess Elementary is one.

Stevens Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rowena Chess Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 16.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rowena Chess Elementary has shrank 18%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 436 in 2025.

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