Wide Hollow Elementary

Wide Hollow Elementary operates as a moderately sized primary school in Yakima, Washington, run under West Valley School District (Yakima). Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades K through 5.

West Valley School District (Yakima) comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 5,480 students; Wide Hollow Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wide Hollow Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 39% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Wide Hollow Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Yakima County (around 77%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wide Hollow Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 36.5%; Wide Hollow Elementary posts 54.9%, +18.4 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Yakima County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,656 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Wide Hollow Elementary is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County (combined enrollment of about 52,145 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Valley Mid-Level Campus, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wide Hollow Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wide Hollow Elementary has expanded 11%, going from 389 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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