Selah High School

Selah High School is a heavily attended senior high in Selah, Washington, run under Selah School District. The school hosts 1,159 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 102% bigger than the state mean of about 573.

Across the 9 schools in Selah School District (3,784 students total), Selah High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Selah High School reports that White students make up the majority at 58%; the rest breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Yakima County as a whole is about 47% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Yakima County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Selah High School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.8%; Selah High School posts 26.9%, -18.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yakima County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,656 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Yakima County runs 119 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students), of which Selah High School is one.

Selah Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Selah High School has rose 5%, going from 1,107 students in 2018 to 1,159 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.