Wilbur Secondary 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 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 22 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wilbur Secondary School
Located at 202 Pope Street, in Wilbur, Washington, Wilbur Secondary School is a micro-enrollment high school that caters to 109 students (grades 7 through 12), part of Wilbur School District. Compared to the state average of about 573 students per school, that is 81% below typical.
Wilbur School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 226 students; Wilbur Secondary School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Wilbur Secondary School shows that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 15% Native American, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Lincoln County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Wilbur Secondary School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Wilbur Secondary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 48% of students at Wilbur Secondary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilbur Secondary School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.2%; Wilbur Secondary School posts 37.3%, -10.9 points below that line.
Around the school, Lincoln County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,512 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Wilbur Secondary School is one of 19 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 2,233 students).
Wilbur Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Wilbur Secondary School at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.7%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 138 students in 2018 compared to 109 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 64% across the same window.
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- Wilbur Elementary SchoolElementary · 117 students
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