Terrace Heights Elementary

Set in Yakima, Washington, Terrace Heights Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school, operated by East Valley School District (Yakima). It instructs 454 students across grades K through 5.

East Valley School District (Yakima) comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,387 students; Terrace Heights Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Terrace Heights Elementary shows that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 42% White, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Yakima County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Terrace Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.7%; this one delivers 41.8%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Yakima County) reports that 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 Terrace Heights Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Washington Middle School, around 2.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Terrace Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Terrace Heights Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Terrace Heights Elementary has shrank 11%, going from 508 students in 2018 to 454 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 42% to 51% over that span.

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