Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
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Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School
Located at 480 NW Loop Rd, in White Salmon, Washington, Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School is a minimally staffed intermediate school that educates 163 students (grades 5 through 6), part of White Salmon Valley School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School sits 72% below that benchmark.
White Salmon Valley School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,078 students. Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 40% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.8%; this one delivers 40.6%.
Across the wider county, census data for Klickitat County shows median household earnings sit near $71,042, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Klickitat County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,803 students), of which Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Wayne M Henkle Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 46.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wallace & Priscilla Stevenson Intermediate School has fell 47%, going from 310 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 64% to 54% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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