Wahluke High School

Wahluke High School is one of the mid-tier secondary schools in Mattawa, Washington, run under Wahluke School District, with 750 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so Wahluke High School sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

Wahluke School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,455 students; Wahluke High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wahluke High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). By comparison, Grant County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Wahluke High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Grant County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wahluke High School ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 18.2%; Wahluke High School posts 29.4%, +11.2 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Grant County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,267, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Grant County's 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,494 students), Wahluke High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wahluke Junior High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Wahluke High School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wahluke High School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 21.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Wahluke High School's enrollment has grew 25% since 2018, when it stood at 599 (now 750). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 94% to 99%. Class-load math has grew: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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