Special Education

As a minimally staffed multi-level school in Kelso, Washington, Special Education enrolls 19 students from grades pre-K through 12, one of the schools within Kelso School District. Enrollment runs roughly 91% below the state mean of about 204.

Special Education is one of 13 schools operated by Kelso School District, a district that teaches 4,960 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Special Education reports that White students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder is composed of 21% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 5% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, Roughly 68% of students at Special Education qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cowlitz County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cowlitz County indicate median household income runs about $76,531, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Cowlitz County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,080 students), Special Education is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Huntington Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Special Education's enrollment has ticked down 60% since 2018, when it stood at 47 (now 19). White enrollment moved from 77% to 63% across the same window.

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