Vanguard Academy

Vanguard Academy operates as a low-enrollment senior high in Moses Lake, Washington, operated by Moses Lake School District. Current enrollment sits at 387 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% leaner than the state mean of about 573.

Moses Lake School District runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,430 students. Vanguard Academy is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Vanguard Academy records that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Vanguard Academy logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.3:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Grant County (around 69%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Vanguard Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 34.2%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Across the wider county, Grant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,267 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Vanguard Academy is one of 61 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students).

Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vanguard Academy comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

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