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Enrollment
554
Middle
DISTRICT 307 · STATE 577
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAHLUKE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530936003264
Wahluke Junior High
502 N. Boundary, Mattawa, WA 99349 · (509) 932-4455 · Grant County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL554 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 40% of Washington public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.7:1 · STATE 18.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
526 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 161 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 189 | 34% |
Student demographics
2%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Wahluke Junior High→Wahluke High School
Based on grade levels within Wahluke School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
29.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.7pp since 2014
Math
16.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.0% | 16.5% |
| 2023-24 | 26.2% | 20.2% |
| 2022-23 | 27.5% | 22.5% |
| 2021-22 | 22.4% | 21.2% |
| 2018-19 | 35.1% | 28.2% |
| 2017-18 | 32.4% | 25.7% |
| 2016-17 | 31.1% | 26.6% |
| 2015-16 | 38.5% | 30.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.7% | 24.4% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wahluke Junior High
Wahluke Junior High's state test result (21.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wahluke Junior High this school | 554 | 94.9% | 21.6% |
| Sierra Vista Middle School Sunnyside | 549 | 90.9% | 18.0% |
| Granger Middle School Granger | 425 | 92.7% | 23.4% |
| Washington Middle School Yakima | 748 | 96.0% | 17.9% |
| Ellen Ochoa Middle School PASCO | 831 | 91.0% | 14.2% |
| Toppenish Middle School TOPPENISH | 757 | 89.7% | 19.4% |
Matched among Washington middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wahluke Junior High ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Grant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #266 of 294 | #8 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.5% | #317 of 357 ▼ 32 | #9 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #312 of 357 ▲ 14 | #9 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.9pp | #183 of 290 | #5 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 554 | #222 of 377 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #74 of 340 | #3 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.5% | #340 of 340 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.9% | #3 of 359 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #156 of 192 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
554
-47 (-8%) vs 2020
+87% since 2010-11, when it was 297
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 554 | 31.5 | 17.6:1 | 95% (526) |
| 2023-24 | 596 | 33 | 18.1:1 | 84% (503) |
| 2022-23 | 569 | 34 | 16.8:1 | 96% (548) |
| 2020-21 | 601 | 34 | 17.7:1 | 96% (577) |
| 2017-18 | 584 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 98% (570) |
| 2015-16 | 482 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 71% (342) |
| 2010-11 | 297 | 15 | 19.8:1 | 93% (275) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wahluke Junior High.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (584 to 554); teachers down 1% (32 to 31.5).
About Wahluke Junior High
Wahluke Junior High is a public middle school in Mattawa, Washington. The school serves 554 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
A total of 8 schools make up Wahluke School District, with 2,455 students enrolled.
The student body at Wahluke Junior High is 99% Hispanic. Among all residents of Grant County, the Hispanic share is about 44%. The school's diversity index is 2%, meaning two students picked at random have a 2% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Dividing enrollment by its 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 17.6:1. That is lower than the 18.9:1 average for middle schools in Washington. Eligible students account for 95% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. Across public schools in Grant County, the average is 69%.
The allk12 Grade for Wahluke Junior High is C+. Compared with Washington public middle schools, the school scored higher than 40% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Wahluke Junior High scores 21.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 16.5%.
Grant County has these Census figures: the median household income is $73,267, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Grant County is home to 61 public schools and about 20,494 public school students.
The school nearest to Wahluke Junior High is Morris Schott Elementary, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles number 7. Wahluke Junior High is 3rd of 6 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale: Rural: Remote. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory far from an urban area.
Enrollment at Wahluke Junior High declined 8% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 601 to 554 students.
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Grant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
101,799
Census ACS
Median income
$73,267
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
61
20,494 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wahluke School District
- Wahluke High SchoolHigh · 750 students
- Saddle Mountain ElementaryElementary · 470 students
- Morris Schott ElementaryElementary · 317 students
- Mattawa ElementaryElementary · 199 students
- Mattawa Elementary Pre-SchoolElementary · 119 students
- Sentinel Tech Alt SchoolHigh · 36 students
Other schools in Mattawa
- Wahluke High SchoolHigh · 750 students
- Saddle Mountain ElementaryElementary · 470 students
- Morris Schott ElementaryElementary · 317 students
- Mattawa ElementaryElementary · 199 students
- Mattawa Elementary Pre-SchoolElementary · 119 students
- Sentinel Tech Alt SchoolHigh · 36 students
Nearby schools
- Morris Schott Elementary0.1 mi · 317
- Mattawa Elementary Pre-School0.1 mi · 119
- Developmental Pre-School0.1 mi · 10
- Mattawa Elementary0.1 mi · 199
- Wahluke High School0.1 mi · 750
- Saddle Mountain Elementary0.2 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Wahluke Junior HighHow large is Wahluke Junior High?
Wahluke Junior High enrolls approximately 554 students in grades 06-08.
Is Wahluke Junior High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wahluke Junior High is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Wahluke Junior High have?
Wahluke Junior High employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wahluke Junior High?
At Wahluke Junior High, the student body is approximately 1% White, 99% Hispanic, 0% Two or more.
What district is Wahluke Junior High in?
Wahluke Junior High is part of Wahluke School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.