Waitsburg High School

Waitsburg High School is one of the tiny 9-12 campuss in Waitsburg, Washington, overseen by Waitsburg School District, with 87 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 85% below the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.

Within Waitsburg School District, which oversees 3 schools and 309 students, Waitsburg High School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Waitsburg High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Waitsburg High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Walla Walla County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Waitsburg High School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.8%; Waitsburg High School posts 34.0%, -13.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Walla Walla County shows median household earnings sit near $74,202, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Walla Walla County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), Waitsburg High School is one campus in the mix.

Waitsburg Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Waitsburg High School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Waitsburg High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 87 (now 87). Class-load math has grew: from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Waitsburg High School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.