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Discovery Early Learning Center, Yakima, WA

CEP schoolDiscovery Early Learning Center is a public prekindergarten school in Yakima, part of Yakima School District. It enrolled 303 students in 2024-25, with 18.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
303
Teachers (FTE)
16.0
Students per teacher
18.9
Grades
PK

This school's ratio is 1.2 higher than the district figure of 17.7. The Washington average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.9
District17.7
Washington18.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
2810 Castlevale Road, Yakima, WA 98902
Phone
(509)573-5400
District
Yakima School District
County
Yakima County
Level
Prekindergarten
Type
Special education
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
531011003026
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
240
Reduced-price lunch
26
Free or reduced-price lunch
26687.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification
234Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Prekindergarten schools elsewhere in Yakima

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.