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Enrollment
382
Elementary
DISTRICT 340 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARYSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530486000733
Cascade Elementary
5200 100th St NE, Marysville, WA 98270 · (360) 965-1200 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL382 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Washington public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
246 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
45.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.3pp since 2014
Math
34.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -10.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.8% | 34.4% |
| 2023-24 | 43.9% | 43.9% |
| 2022-23 | 33.6% | 34.6% |
| 2021-22 | 43.5% | 38.7% |
| 2018-19 | 52.9% | 44.4% |
| 2017-18 | 55.4% | 42.1% |
| 2016-17 | 52.2% | 42.5% |
| 2015-16 | 49.3% | 38.0% |
| 2014-15 | 45.6% | 44.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Washington's top nor bottom 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 Cascade Elementary
Cascade Elementary's state test result (42.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade Elementary this school | 382 | 64.4% | 42.4% |
| View Ridge Elementary Arts Academy Bremerton | 388 | 65.7% | 36.5% |
| Shoultes Elementary Marysville | 348 | 59.5% | 34.1% |
| Hazel Dell Elementary School VANCOUVER | 370 | 65.4% | N/A |
| Liberty Elementary Marysville | 398 | 68.8% | 34.5% |
| Marshall Elementary Marysville | 331 | 58.9% | 25.8% |
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 Cascade Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #575 of 936 | #71 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #791 of 1,103 ▼ 240 | #83 of 106 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #603 of 1,102 ▲ 29 | #74 of 106 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #322 of 928 | #26 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 382 | #703 of 1,268 | #100 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #721 of 1,085 | #69 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.5% | #276 of 1,088 | #36 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.4% | #364 of 1,169 | #20 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #466 of 778 | #24 of 68 |
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
382
+19 (+5%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 535
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 382 | 23 | 16.6:1 | 64% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 23.9 | 16.9:1 | 63% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 23.5 | 17.6:1 | 57% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 363 | 24 | 15.1:1 | 56% (203) |
| 2017-18 | 444 | 25.6 | 17.4:1 | 54% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 448 | 23 | 19.5:1 | 61% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 489 | 25 | 19.6:1 | 56% (274) |
| 2000-01 | 593 | 23 | 25.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 535 | 22 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cascade Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (444 to 382); teachers down 10% (25.6 to 23).
About Cascade Elementary
The public elementary school Cascade Elementary is located in Marysville, Washington. It had 382 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5.
The district, Marysville School District, has 9,760 students enrolled across 23 schools.
About 39% of students at Cascade Elementary are White, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 34% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 5% Black. Snohomish County's residents are about 64% White, 25 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Cascade Elementary, there are about 16.6 students; the school has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. There are 246 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 64% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Snohomish County is 41%.
Cascade Elementary holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 45% of Washington public elementary schools.
The model predicts 37.0% for a school in Washington with Cascade Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Cascade Elementary posts 42.4%.
The school's county is Snohomish County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $111,246 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Public schools in Snohomish County number 227, with about 118,688 students.
Measured in a straight line, Marysville Pilchuck High School is about 0.8 miles from Cascade Elementary. The five-mile area around Cascade Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 39.5% proficiency; Cascade Elementary posts 42.4%.
NCES assigns Cascade Elementary the locale Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 363 to 382, a 5% rise. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.6:1.
Cascade Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marysville School District
- Marysville Getchell High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Marysville Pilchuck High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Cedarcrest SchoolMiddle · 704 students
- Marysville Middle SchoolMiddle · 656 students
- Totem Middle SchoolMiddle · 522 students
- Quil Ceda Tulalip ElementaryElementary · 498 students
Other schools in Marysville
- Marysville Getchell High SchoolHigh · 1,381 students
- Marysville Pilchuck High SchoolHigh · 1,182 students
- Cedarcrest SchoolMiddle · 704 students
- Lakewood Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Marysville Middle SchoolMiddle · 656 students
- Totem Middle SchoolMiddle · 522 students
Other Cascade Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 6 states are named Cascade Elementary. Cascade Elementary is the 5th largest of the 9.
- Cascade ElementaryEast Wenatchee, WA · 568 students
- Cascade Elementary SchoolKENNEWICK, WA · 509 students
- Cascade Elementary SchoolRenton, WA · 434 students
- Cascade ElementaryWartrace, TN · 621 students
- Cascade Elementary SchoolAtlanta, GA · 314 students
Nearby schools
- Marysville Pilchuck High School0.8 mi · 1,182
- Pinewood Elementary0.9 mi · 398
- Kellogg Marsh Elementary School0.9 mi · 468
- Cedarcrest School1.2 mi · 704
- Marshall Elementary1.2 mi · 331
- Marysville Coop Program1.2 mi · 150
Frequently asked questions
About Cascade ElementaryHow large is Cascade Elementary?
Cascade Elementary enrolls approximately 382 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Cascade Elementary serve?
Cascade Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cascade Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cascade Elementary is approximately 16.6:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cascade Elementary?
At Cascade Elementary, the student body is approximately 39% White, 34% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Cascade Elementary in?
Cascade Elementary is part of Marysville School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.