Broad View Elementary

Broad View Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus in Oak Harbor, Washington, part of Oak Harbor School District. The school instructs 369 students in grades K through 4.

Oak Harbor School District runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,635 students. Broad View Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Broad View Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 27% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Broad View Elementary logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Broad View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Broad View Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.8%.

In the surrounding community, Island County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,551, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Island County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,561 students), Broad View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Oak Harbor Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Broad View Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Broad View Elementary's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 434 (now 369). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 18% to 27%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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