Taholah Elementary & Middle School

As a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Taholah, Washington, Taholah Elementary & Middle School instructs 126 students from grades K through 8, operated by Taholah School District. That puts it 67% smaller than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Taholah Elementary & Middle School is one of 2 schools operated by Taholah School District, a district that enrolls 192 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Taholah Elementary & Middle School reports that Native American students make up the majority at 72%; the rest comes out to 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Grays Harbor County (around 65%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Taholah Elementary & Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 24.8%; actual is 13.9%, a gap of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Grays Harbor County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,414 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Grays Harbor County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,564 students), of which Taholah Elementary & Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Taholah High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, Taholah Elementary & Middle School comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 14%: 111 students in 2018 compared to 126 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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