Enrollment
318
Elementary
DISTRICT 397 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KENT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530396000612
Cedar Valley Elementary School
26500 Timberlane Way SE, Covington, WA 98042 · (253) 373-7649 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL318 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
136 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 39% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 79% · 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
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
33.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.0pp since 2014
Math
32.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.6% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 40.9% | 26.3% |
| 2022-23 | 37.0% | 24.4% |
| 2021-22 | 30.1% | 25.7% |
| 2018-19 | 45.2% | 33.1% |
| 2017-18 | 51.8% | 37.8% |
| 2016-17 | 47.6% | 38.6% |
| 2015-16 | 47.6% | 47.0% |
| 2014-15 | 45.6% | 40.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 52% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Cedar Valley Elementary School
Cedar Valley Elementary School's state test result (35.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Valley Elementary School this school | 318 | 42.8% | 35.9% |
| Kenmore Elementary Kenmore | 396 | 41.2% | 60.3% |
| Columbia Valley Elementary Vancouver | 360 | 43.1% | N/A |
| Grove Elementary Marysville | 392 | 46.4% | 40.7% |
| Meridian Elementary School Kent | 390 | 40.5% | 56.1% |
| Cherrydale Elementary Steilacoom | 348 | 44.3% | 60.7% |
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 Cedar Valley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #703 of 936 | #219 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #826 of 1,103 ▲ 102 | #224 of 281 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #886 of 1,102 ▼ 183 | #229 of 280 ▼ 29 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.3pp | #243 of 928 | #61 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 318 | #899 of 1,268 | #242 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #352 of 1,085 | #84 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.4% | #240 of 1,088 | #129 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #760 of 1,169 | #128 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.4% | #25 of 257 | #10 of 54 |
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
318
+67 (+27%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 623
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 318 | 21.1 | 15.1:1 | 43% (136) |
| 2023-24 | 315 | 26.2 | 12.0:1 | 41% (128) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 21.6 | 12.0:1 | 50% (128) |
| 2020-21 | 251 | 20 | 12.6:1 | 47% (118) |
| 2017-18 | 242 | 20.4 | 11.9:1 | 51% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 309 | 21 | 14.7:1 | 65% (201) |
| 2010-11 | 344 | 21 | 16.4:1 | 45% (154) |
| 2000-01 | 434 | 26 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 623 | 27 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Valley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 31% (242 to 318); teachers up 4% (20.4 to 21.1).
About Cedar Valley Elementary School
The public elementary school Cedar Valley Elementary School is located in Covington, Washington. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 318 students.
Cedar Valley Elementary School is one of 44 schools in Kent School District, which enrolls 25,358 students in total.
The biggest share of students at Cedar Valley Elementary School, 44%, is White. Next come 25% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 11% multiracial, and 7% Black. That compares with about 55% White among all King County residents. The diversity index for Cedar Valley Elementary School is 71%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 15.1 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Cedar Valley Elementary School, which has 21.1. The school's 15.1:1 compares with an average of 17.3:1 for elementary schools in Washington. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 43%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Cedar Valley Elementary School would score about 51.5%. It scores 35.9%, a bottom-10% result among Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school's county is King County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $124,746, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Cedar Valley Elementary School shares King County with 543 other public schools.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, Cedar Heights Middle School, is the closest to Cedar Valley Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 49.8%, higher than Cedar Valley Elementary School's 35.9%.
Federal data place Cedar Valley Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 67 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.6:1 in 2020-21, and 15.1:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Kent School District
- Kentridge High SchoolHigh · 2,186 students
- Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Kent-Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,639 students
- Kentlake High SchoolHigh · 1,561 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 911 students
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 876 students
Other schools in Covington
- Kentwood High SchoolHigh · 1,995 students
- Maple View Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,046 students
- Cedar Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 876 students
- Mattson Middle SchoolMiddle · 719 students
- Covington Elementary SchoolElementary · 456 students
- Crestwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 386 students
Other Cedar Valley Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Cedar Valley Elementary. Cedar Valley Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Cedar Valley ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 427 students
- Cedar Valley Elementary SchoolKILLEEN, TX · 570 students
Nearby schools
- Cedar Heights Middle School0.5 mi · 876
- Jenkins Creek Elementary School0.5 mi · 340
- Crestwood Elementary School1.1 mi · 386
- Grass Lake Elementary School1.4 mi · 337
- Kentwood High School1.6 mi · 1,995
- Maple View Middle School1.8 mi · 1,046
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Valley Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cedar Valley Elementary School?
Cedar Valley Elementary School enrolls approximately 318 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cedar Valley Elementary School serve?
Cedar Valley Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Cedar Valley Elementary School have?
Cedar Valley Elementary School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cedar Valley Elementary School?
At Cedar Valley Elementary School, the student body is approximately 44% White, 25% Hispanic, 7% Black, 13% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Cedar Valley Elementary School public or private?
Cedar Valley Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kent School District.
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