White Swan High School

White Swan High School is one of the tight-knit secondary schools in White Swan, Washington, part of Mount Adams School District, with 252 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 573.

Mount Adams School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 839 students; White Swan High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, White Swan High School logs that the largest single group is Native American, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 94% of students at White Swan High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Yakima County (around 77%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, White Swan High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.8%; this one delivers 19.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Yakima County shows median household earnings sit near $70,656, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. White Swan High School is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mount Adams Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts White Swan High School at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. White Swan High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 247 (now 252). Class-load math has grew: from 8.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.