Toutle Lake High School

Toutle Lake High School is a small high school that serves part of Toutle, Washington. The school counted 308 students in 2024-25, covering grades 7 through 12. That is 46% below the average of about 573 students for high schools in Washington.

Toutle Lake School District has 673 students in 2 schools, and Toutle Lake High School is one of those schools.

Roughly 84% of students at Toutle Lake High School are White. Other groups make up 7% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Cowlitz County residents are about 83% White, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 27%.

Its ratio of 19.5:1 is based on 15.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in Washington is 21.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cowlitz County average 58%.

American Community Survey estimates for Cowlitz County show that the median household earns about $76,531 a year, about 18% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Across Cowlitz County, 48 public schools serve about 17,080 students.

Toutle Lake Elementary, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within ten miles number at least 8.

Toutle Lake High School is coded as Rural: Distant in federal locale data.

Federal data show 313 students in 2020-21 and 308 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. Federal data show the ratio falling from 24.1:1 to 19.5:1.

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