Bay View Elementary

Bay View Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in BURLINGTON, Washington, overseen by Burlington-Edison School District, with 418 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Burlington-Edison School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,276 students; Bay View Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Bay View Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, Bay View Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Bay View Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at Bay View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bay View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of -10.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Skagit County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,263 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Skagit County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,298 students), Bay View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Allen Elementary, around 2.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Bay View Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bay View Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.2%.

Bay View Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bay View Elementary has contracted 20%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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