Christ the Teacher Catholic School is a Pre-K-8 parish school of the Diocese of Yakima, located on West Chestnut in west Yakima. Enrollment runs around 195 students with a 20:1 student-teacher ratio.
Within Central Washington's Catholic education landscape, Christ the Teacher is one of two Catholic K-8 schools in the city of Yakima (the other being St. Paul Cathedral School), and the broader Diocese of Yakima network includes parish schools across the Yakima Valley and Tri-Cities. Catholic high-school continuation in the diocese routes mainly to La Salle High School in Union Gap, the diocese's only Catholic high school. Compared with secular options in Yakima County, Christ the Teacher's peer set is small — the area's secular private cohort is thin, so the comparison is mostly with strong public options (Davis, Eisenhower, Selah) at no tuition rather than other private alternatives.
The academic program follows the standard Diocese of Yakima parochial model — daily religion, weekly Mass, core academics, plus interscholastic basketball, soccer, track and volleyball. Class sizes are small by single-section design, the trade for the higher than-average student-teacher ratio. The school's primary draw is the parish community plus continuity into La Salle for families committed to a K-12 Catholic education in a region where that pathway is narrow.
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