Regular local school district · Grant County
Moses Lake School District, WA: schools, enrollment and spending
Moses Lake School District runs 20 public schools with 8,430 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 20.8 students per teacher is 2.6 higher than the Washington figure of 18.2.
At a glance
- Schools
- 20
- Students
- 8,430
- Teachers (FTE)
- 406
- Students per teacher
- 20.8
- WA: 18.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1620 S Pioneer Way, Moses Lake, WA 98837
- Phone
- (509)766-2650
- County
- Grant County
- Locale
- Town: Remote
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 5305220
- State district ID
- WA-13161
- Total staff (FTE)
- 825
- School counselors (FTE)
- 19.0About 444 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 26.0
Students per teacher compared
This district20.8
Washington18.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (8,283), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $131.7 million
- Federal revenue
- $12.0 million
- State revenue
- $105.9 million
- Local revenue
- $13.7 million
- Total spending
- $159.1 million
- Spending per pupil
- $19,203
- Salaries
- $73.6 million46.3% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $59.5 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 9.1%
- State: 80.4%
- Local: 10.4%
Washington overall
- Federal: 8.1%
- State: 67.2%
- Local: 24.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$19,203
Washington$19,323
United States$16,826
Schools in Moses Lake School District
By level: 5 high, 3 middle, 11 elementary, 1 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Columbia Basin Technical Skills CenterCEP school | High | 10 to 12 | 53 | 4.4 |
| Columbia Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 875 | 21.9 |
| Digital Learning Center | High | 6 to 12 | 359 | 29.9 |
| Endeavor Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 270 | 22.5 |
| Frontier Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 690 | 20.9 |
| Garden Heights ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 324 | 18.0 |
| Knolls Vista ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 282 | 15.7 |
| Lakeview Terrace ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 303 | 17.8 |
| Larson Heights ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 292 | 16.2 |
| Longview ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 368 | 18.4 |
| Midway ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 222 | 18.5 |
| MLSD Open Doors Re-Engagement Program | High | 9 to 12 | 67 | |
| Moses Lake Early Learning Center | Prekindergarten | PK | 221 | 221.0 |
| Moses Lake High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 1,856 | 26.5 |
| North ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 277 | 19.8 |
| Park Orchard Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 454 | 18.9 |
| Peninsula ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 383 | 17.4 |
| Sage Point Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 334 | 17.6 |
| Vanguard AcademyCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 387 | 25.8 |
| Vicki I. Groff Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | K to 5 | 413 | 19.7 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Grant County
- Quincy School District 3,162 students
- Ephrata School District 2,833 students
- Wahluke School District 2,455 students
- Royal School District 1,769 students
- Warden School District 933 students
- Soap Lake School District 591 students
- Coulee-Hartline School District 170 students
- Wilson Creek School District 118 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.