Touchet Elem & High School

Touchet Elem & High School operates as a moderately sized unified-grade school in TOUCHET, Washington, one of the schools within Touchet School District. Current enrollment sits at 251 students spanning grades K through 12. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 204 students.

Touchet Elem & High School sits inside Touchet School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Touchet Elem & High School reports that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 45% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 33.2:1, putting Touchet Elem & High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Touchet Elem & High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Touchet Elem & High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the area at large, Walla Walla County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,202 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Walla Walla County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), of which Touchet Elem & High School is one.

The closest other public school is Helix Charter School, roughly 13.4 miles away. On composite proficiency, Touchet Elem & High School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Touchet Elem & High School's enrollment has edged up 25% since 2018, when it stood at 201 (now 251). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 52% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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