White Bluffs Elementary School

As an expansive elementary school in Richland, Washington, White Bluffs Elementary School educates 653 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Richland School District. That puts it 72% bigger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Richland School District comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 14,410 students; White Bluffs Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, White Bluffs Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting White Bluffs Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at White Bluffs Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Benton County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Benton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,874 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. White Bluffs Elementary School is one of 69 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 38,191 students).

The closest other public school is Orchard Elementary, roughly 2.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around White Bluffs Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. White Bluffs Elementary School's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 746 (now 653). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 67% over that span.

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