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What's the most underrated thing about Cascade View Elementary School that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
493
Elementary
DISTRICT 525 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SNOQUALMIE VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530804002980
Cascade View Elementary School
34816 SE Ridge Street, Snoqualmie, WA 98065 · (425) 831-4100 · King County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL493 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
3%
17 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 103 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 33% smaller than its 5th grade class (103).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · 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
82.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +12.1pp since 2014
Math
84.9%
WA avg 51.2% . +22.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 23 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.8% | 84.9% |
| 2023-24 | 82.4% | 82.3% |
| 2022-23 | 81.1% | 80.7% |
| 2021-22 | 80.7% | 80.7% |
| 2018-19 | 78.9% | 76.8% |
| 2017-18 | 77.4% | 73.0% |
| 2016-17 | 80.3% | 74.2% |
| 2015-16 | 79.4% | 75.2% |
| 2014-15 | 70.7% | 62.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
83.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 View Elementary School
Cascade View Elementary School's state test result (83.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cascade View Elementary School this school | 493 | 3.4% | 83.4% |
| Bryant Elementary School SEATTLE | 470 | 5.3% | 80.4% |
| Catharine Blaine K-8 School SEATTLE | 438 | 6.8% | 80.3% |
| Frantz Coe Elementary School SEATTLE | 467 | 11.1% | 88.6% |
| Cascadia Elementary Seattle | 531 | 7.7% | 96.5% |
| Island Park Elementary Mercer Island | 364 | 2.2% | 88.0% |
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 View Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.4% | #28 of 936 | #24 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.9% | #23 of 1,103 ▲ 11 | #21 of 281 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #36 of 1,102 ▲ 5 | #29 of 280 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.2pp | #363 of 928 | #92 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 493 | #311 of 1,268 | #83 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #725 of 1,085 | #188 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.5% | #829 of 1,088 | #265 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 3.4% | #1,165 of 1,169 | #288 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.6% | #393 of 778 | #125 of 220 |
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
493
-71 (-13%) vs 2020
-29% since 2010-11, when it was 696
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 493 | 29.7 | 16.6:1 | 3% (17) |
| 2023-24 | 525 | 30 | 17.5:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 3% (19) |
| 2020-21 | 564 | 36 | 15.7:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 591 | 29.1 | 20.3:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 32 | 20.7:1 | 3% (20) |
| 2010-11 | 696 | 31 | 22.4:1 | 5% (32) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cascade View Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (591 to 493); teachers up 2% (29.1 to 29.7).
About Cascade View Elementary School
Cascade View Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Snoqualmie, Washington, (ZIP code 98065). The school enrolls 493 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Snoqualmie Valley School District has 13 schools; together they serve 7,145 students.
At 70%, White students outnumber all other groups at Cascade View Elementary School combined. After that, the student body is 18% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Among all residents of King County, the White share is about 55%. Cascade View Elementary School has a diversity index of 47%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 29.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Cascade View Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 16.6:1. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average ratio is about 17.3:1. The lunch program counts 3% of students at Cascade View Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in King County averages 38%, higher than here.
The model predicts 77.9% for a school in Washington with Cascade View Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Cascade View Elementary School posts 83.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for King County show that median household income is about $124,746, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Cascade View Elementary School is one of 544 public schools in King County, which together enroll about 278,492 students.
The school nearest to Cascade View Elementary School is Timber Ridge Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.5 miles. Within five miles of Cascade View Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Cascade View Elementary School is 1st of 7 nearby schools with test data.
The school's locale code, Town: Fringe, means it is in a town close to an urbanized area.
The student count in 2024-25 was 493, 13% below the 564 of 2020-21.
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King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Snoqualmie Valley School District
- Mount Si High SchoolHigh · 2,152 students
- Timber Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 607 students
- Edwin R Opstad ElementaryElementary · 581 students
- Twin Falls Middle SchoolMiddle · 556 students
- Snoqualmie ElementaryElementary · 547 students
- Chief Kanim Middle SchoolMiddle · 520 students
Other schools in Snoqualmie
- Mount Si High SchoolHigh · 2,152 students
- Timber Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 607 students
- Snoqualmie ElementaryElementary · 547 students
- Snoqualmie Middle SchoolMiddle · 496 students
- Snoqualmie Parent Partnership ProgramCombined · 203 students
- Echo Glen SchoolHigh · 104 students
Other Cascade View Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Cascade View Elementary. Cascade View Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Cascade View ElementaryTukwila, WA · 481 students
- Cascade View ElementarySnohomish, WA · 412 students
Nearby schools
- Timber Ridge Elementary School0.5 mi · 607
- Echo Glen School1.5 mi · 104
- Snoqualmie Access2.2 mi · 12
- Fall City Elementary2.8 mi · 456
- Two Rivers School2.8 mi · 56
- Mount Si High School2.8 mi · 2,152
Frequently asked questions
About Cascade View Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Cascade View Elementary School?
Cascade View Elementary School enrolls approximately 493 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Cascade View Elementary School serve?
Cascade View Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Cascade View Elementary School have?
Cascade View Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cascade View Elementary School?
At Cascade View Elementary School, the student body is approximately 70% White, 4% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Cascade View Elementary School in?
Cascade View Elementary School is part of Snoqualmie Valley School District.
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