NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools WA

Best-Resourced Schools in Kettle Falls, WA

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5 public K-12 schools in Kettle Falls from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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5
Schools
1,116
Students
47.3/100
Avg Resource Index
22.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Kettle Falls has more public-school enrollment than 3% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Columbia Virtual Academy - Kettle Falls enrolls 37.5% of Kettle Falls's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Kettle Falls's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Kettle Falls lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 20 to 419 students, a 21-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 97%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
79th percentile
Teacher staffing
6th percentile

Columbia Virtual Academy - Kettle Falls accounts for 37.5% of all Kettle Falls public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Kettle Falls-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Kettle Falls school enrollment varies 21× across entities

Kettle Falls school enrollment ranges from 20 students (lowest) to 419 students (highest), a spread of 399 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Kettle Falls operates one school district — a single-district system

Kettle Falls's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Kettle Falls student-teacher ratio is 22.7:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Kettle Falls Elementary School 63
2. Kettle Falls Middle School 57
3. Kettle Falls High School 54
4. Columbia Virtual Academy - Kettle Falls 15
5. Kettle Falls Early Learning Center -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Kettle Falls

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Columbia Virtual Academy - Kettle Falls 55.6/100
  2. 2 Kettle Falls High School 33.9/100
  3. 3 Kettle Falls Elementary School 33.3/100
  4. 4 Kettle Falls Middle School 28.8/100
  5. 5 Kettle Falls Early Learning Center 9.5/100

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Which Kettle Falls school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Kettle Falls Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Kettle Falls schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Kettle Falls, WA? ▼

Kettle Falls has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,116 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 22.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.