Enrollment
270
Elementary
DISTRICT 288 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ZILLAH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531017001896
Zillah Intermediate School
303 Second Avenue, Zillah, WA 98953 · (509) 829-5555 · Yakima County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Washington public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
178 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 51%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 97 | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 31% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 33% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Zillah School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
52.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +8.9pp since 2014
Math
58.3%
WA avg 51.2% . +17.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.8% | 58.3% |
| 2023-24 | 51.2% | 51.5% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 47.4% |
| 2021-22 | 46.8% | 54.4% |
| 2018-19 | 70.4% | 60.1% |
| 2017-18 | 60.3% | 59.8% |
| 2016-17 | 59.0% | 68.4% |
| 2015-16 | 49.5% | 42.1% |
| 2014-15 | 44.0% | 41.0% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Washington's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Zillah Intermediate School
Zillah Intermediate School's state test result (50.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zillah Intermediate School this school | 270 | 65.9% | 50.8% |
| Hilton Elementary School Zillah | 305 | 67.9% | N/A |
| Lakeview Terrace Elementary MOSES LAKE | 303 | 71.6% | 34.1% |
| Mesa Elem Mesa | 220 | 69.1% | 35.9% |
| Mike Morris Elementary SOUTH BEND | 286 | 72.4% | 37.4% |
| Paul Rumburg Elementary ENTIAT | 231 | 70.1% | N/A |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Zillah Intermediate School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #417 of 936 | #7 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #286 of 1,103 ▲ 122 | #6 of 45 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #449 of 1,102 ▲ 20 | #8 of 45 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #263 of 928 | #12 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #1,026 of 1,268 | #47 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #783 of 1,085 | #39 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #585 of 1,088 | #3 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.9% | #339 of 1,169 | #40 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #641 of 778 | #33 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
270
-18 (-6%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 325
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 20.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 270 | 16 | 16.8:1 | 66% (178) |
| 2023-24 | 263 | 14.7 | 17.9:1 | 78% (204) |
| 2022-23 | 264 | 16.9 | 15.6:1 | 78% (206) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 14 | 20.6:1 | 61% (175) |
| 2017-18 | 289 | 15.4 | 18.8:1 | 61% (177) |
| 2015-16 | 304 | 16 | 19.0:1 | 60% (181) |
| 2010-11 | 325 | 15 | 21.7:1 | 58% (189) |
| 2000-01 | 296 | 16 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 325 | 12 | 27.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Zillah Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (289 to 270); teachers up 4% (15.4 to 16).
About Zillah Intermediate School
In Zillah, Washington, Zillah Intermediate School is a small elementary school. It teaches 270 students in grades 3 through 5. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 29% lower.
Zillah Intermediate School is one school in a 4-school district, Zillah School District, which enrolls 1,330 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Zillah Intermediate School is 54%, a majority. It is also 37% White, 6% Native American, and 3% multiracial. Census estimates put Yakima County at about 52% Hispanic, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
There are 16 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 16.8:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Of all students at Zillah Intermediate School, 66% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 11 points below the 77% average for public schools in Yakima County.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Zillah Intermediate School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Zillah Intermediate School would score about 36.0%. It scores 50.8%, a top-10% result among Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is Yakima County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $70,656 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Public schools in Yakima County number 119, with about 52,145 students.
About 0.2 miles separate Zillah Intermediate School from the closest public school, Hilton Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 28.1%; Zillah Intermediate School's is 50.8%, ranking 1st of 7.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Fringe.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 6% decline, from 288 to 270. The ratio of students to teachers went from 20.6:1 to 16.8:1 over the same years.
This page is set up for the Zillah Intermediate School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Zillah School District
- Zillah High SchoolHigh · 455 students
- Hilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Zillah Middle SchoolMiddle · 300 students
Other schools in Zillah
- Zillah High SchoolHigh · 455 students
- Hilton Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Zillah Middle SchoolMiddle · 300 students
Nearby schools
- Hilton Elementary School0.2 mi · 305
- Zillah Middle School0.7 mi · 300
- Zillah High School1.0 mi · 455
- Valley View Elementary2.3 mi · 484
- Lincoln Elementary School2.5 mi · 244
- Toppenish Middle School2.7 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About Zillah Intermediate SchoolHow large is Zillah Intermediate School?
Zillah Intermediate School enrolls approximately 270 students in grades 03-05.
Is Zillah Intermediate School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Zillah Intermediate School is an elementary school covering grades 03-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Zillah Intermediate School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Zillah Intermediate School is approximately 16.8:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Zillah Intermediate School?
At Zillah Intermediate School, the student body is approximately 37% White, 54% Hispanic, 0% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Zillah Intermediate School public or private?
Zillah Intermediate School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Zillah School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.