Mount Adams School District

Mount Adams School District 209 (MASD) is a school district headquartered in White Swan, Washington.[1]

In 1997 it had 1,274 students, with over 60% of them being Native American.[2] In 2019 it had about 900 students.[3]

Its service area includes White Swan and Harrah.[4] It is the second largest school district in Washington State by land area.[3]

In 2019 Janella Retka of the Yakima Herald wrote that the district has a low tax base. The portions in the Yakama Reservation do not have to pay taxes, and that reduces potential revenue going to MASD.[3]

Schools
  • White Swan High School (9-12) (White Swan)
  • Mount Adams Middle School (7-8) (White Swan)
  • Harrah Elementary School (K-6) (Harrah)
    • The original building was built circa 1937. Attempts to have a new building dated back to circa 1979-1989. Construction of the current facility was scheduled to begin in 2019 on 70 acres (28 ha) of former farmland.[3]

References
  1. "Home". Mount Adams School District. Retrieved 2021-07-13. 621 Signal Peak Rd., White Swan, WA 98952
  2. Tucker, Rob (1998-08-23). "Refocus called for at Chief Leschi". The News Tribune. pp. C1, C4. - Clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com.
  3. Retka, Janelle (2019-03-09). "After 82 years, Mt. Adams School District poised to finally build new elementary school". Yakima Herald. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  4. "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Yakima County, WA" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
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