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Enrollment
529
Elementary
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530048002202
Camas Prairie Elementary
320 176th Street East, Spanaway, WA 98387 · (253) 800-7400 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL529 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
359 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 51%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
79%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 68% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
55.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +15.4pp since 2014
Math
48.5%
WA avg 51.2% . +8.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.5% | 48.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.2% | 59.5% |
| 2022-23 | 56.6% | 54.5% |
| 2021-22 | 55.0% | 54.4% |
| 2018-19 | 56.6% | 53.6% |
| 2017-18 | 58.4% | 56.3% |
| 2016-17 | 49.2% | 48.4% |
| 2015-16 | 53.0% | 45.2% |
| 2014-15 | 40.1% | 40.4% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Washington's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Camas Prairie Elementary
Camas Prairie Elementary's state test result (55.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camas Prairie Elementary this school | 529 | 67.9% | 55.1% |
| Evergreen Elementary Spanaway | 530 | 66.4% | 42.1% |
| Shining Mountain Elementary Spanaway | 613 | 65.7% | 39.9% |
| Firgrove Elementary Puyallup | 593 | 68.3% | 35.4% |
| Brookdale Elementary Tacoma | 483 | 69.2% | 40.2% |
| Fawcett Elementary School Tacoma | 426 | 65.3% | 32.4% |
Matched among Washington elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Camas Prairie Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #345 of 936 | #55 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #473 of 1,103 ▼ 209 | #66 of 142 ▼ 30 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #400 of 1,102 ▼ 50 | #55 of 142 ▼ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.7pp | #238 of 928 | #41 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 529 | #216 of 1,268 | #34 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #105 of 1,085 | #5 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 78.7% | #46 of 1,088 | #20 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.9% | #301 of 1,169 | #34 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #345 of 778 | #39 of 91 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
529
-37 (-7%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 529 | 39.1 | 13.5:1 | 68% (359) |
| 2023-24 | 512 | 39.2 | 13.1:1 | 62% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 38.4 | 13.7:1 | 66% (347) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 42 | 13.5:1 | 55% (311) |
| 2017-18 | 646 | 39.1 | 16.5:1 | 56% (363) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 35 | 16.9:1 | 52% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 586 | 31 | 18.9:1 | 34% (200) |
| 2000-01 | 746 | 34 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 25 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Camas Prairie Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (646 to 529); teachers unchanged (39.1 to 39.1).
About Camas Prairie Elementary
Camas Prairie Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Spanaway, Washington. Federal data show 529 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 39% bigger than that mark.
Camas Prairie Elementary is a school in Bethel School District. The district has 39 schools and 21,732 students.
The biggest share of students at Camas Prairie Elementary, 29%, is White. The remaining shares are 26% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 11% Pacific Islander, and 9% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Pierce County's population at about 64%. The diversity index for Camas Prairie Elementary is 79%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Based on 39.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, Camas Prairie Elementary has a ratio of 13.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington, 17.3:1, is higher. Income data for the school show 68% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 50% for public schools in Pierce County.
Camas Prairie Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 55.1%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Washington are predicted to post 34.7%, so the school is 20.4 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Pierce County show that the median household earns about $99,564 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Pierce County has 287 public schools with about 138,462 students, including Camas Prairie Elementary.
Among nearby public schools, Transition 18-21 Program is closest at less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 5 closest schools with test data, this one included, Camas Prairie Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The school's student count fell 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethel School District
- Graham Kapowsin High SchoolHigh · 2,087 students
- Spanaway Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,787 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 1,688 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Spanaway Middle SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Cedarcrest Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
Other schools in Spanaway
- Spanaway Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,787 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 1,688 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Cedarcrest Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
- Bethel Middle SchoolMiddle · 661 students
- Shining Mountain ElementaryElementary · 613 students
Nearby schools
- Transition 18-21 Program0.1 mi · 58
- Challenger High School0.3 mi · 318
- BETHEL HOPE EARLY LEARNING CENTER0.7 mi · 163
- Evergreen Elementary0.8 mi · 530
- Spanaway Elementary0.9 mi · 371
- Spanaway Lake High School1.0 mi · 1,787
Frequently asked questions
About Camas Prairie ElementaryHow large is Camas Prairie Elementary?
Camas Prairie Elementary enrolls approximately 529 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Camas Prairie Elementary serve?
Camas Prairie Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Camas Prairie Elementary?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Camas Prairie Elementary.
How diverse is Camas Prairie Elementary?
Camas Prairie Elementary reports a student body of 29% White, 26% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Who oversees Camas Prairie Elementary?
Camas Prairie Elementary is overseen by Bethel School District in Pierce County.
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