Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center

Set in Spokane, Washington, Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center is a very small high school, operated by Spokane School District. It teaches 20 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center sits 97% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Spokane School District, which oversees 62 schools and 28,853 students, Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center shows that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 25% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 0.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Spokane County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Across the wider county, Spokane County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,582, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center is one of 187 public schools in Spokane County (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students).

On Track Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spokane Area Professional-Technical Skills Center.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

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