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Aberdeen, Washington - 1 schools
At $25,510 per pupil, Wishkah Valley School District ranks #39 of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending (Washington districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
157
Total Enrollment
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$25,510
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Wishkah Valley School District operates 1 public schools serving 157 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Washington. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Grays Harbor County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $25,510 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 309 Washington districts by per-pupil spending. See how Washington compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 28.4% local, 63.7% state, and 7.9% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 13.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 83.1% White, 6.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Wishkah Valley Elementary/High School accounts for 100.0% of all Wishkah Valley School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wishkah Valley School District a distant remainder — means Wishkah Valley School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Wishkah Valley School District has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 73.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Wishkah Valley School District chronic absenteeism rate is 13.5% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Comparisons are relative to Wishkah Valley School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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