Wellpinit Elementary School

As a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Wellpinit, Washington, Wellpinit Elementary School serves 136 students from grades K through 5, operated by Wellpinit School District #49. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Wellpinit Elementary School sits 64% below that benchmark.

Wellpinit Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Wellpinit School District #49, a district that enrolls 415 students overall.

On demographics, Wellpinit Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (82%). Other groups include 7% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Stevens County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wellpinit Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.5%, the actual is 20.8%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Stevens County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,327 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Stevens County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,726 students), Wellpinit Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wellpinit Middle School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Wellpinit Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Wellpinit Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 24%: 179 students in 2018 compared to 136 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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