Selah Middle School

As an expansive intermediate school in Selah, Washington, Selah Middle School hosts 871 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Selah School District. Enrollment runs roughly 51% bigger than the state mean of about 577.

Selah School District runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,784 students. Selah Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Selah Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 37% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Yakima County as a whole is about 47% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Yakima County's rate of about 77%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Selah Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.5%; this one comes in at 32.9%, -12.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Yakima County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,656, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Yakima County's 119 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students), Selah Middle School is one campus in the mix.

John Campbell Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Selah Middle School's enrollment has ticked up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 826 (now 871). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 65% to 58%.

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