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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Cedar Wood Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
682
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530267002431
Cedar Wood Elementary
3414 168th St. SE, Bothell, WA 98012 · (425) 385-7700 · Snohomish County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL682 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
154 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 26 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 119 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (127).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
86.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -6.8pp since 2014
Math
84.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.7% | 84.4% |
| 2023-24 | 84.9% | 82.6% |
| 2022-23 | 86.6% | 83.3% |
| 2021-22 | 87.4% | 85.1% |
| 2018-19 | 92.6% | 91.8% |
| 2017-18 | 95.1% | 93.2% |
| 2016-17 | 90.7% | 88.9% |
| 2015-16 | 92.3% | 88.2% |
| 2014-15 | 93.4% | 92.2% |
% 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
84.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% 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 19 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 Cedar Wood Elementary
Cedar Wood Elementary's state test result (84.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Wood Elementary this school | 682 | 22.6% | 84.4% |
| Rose Hill Elementary Kirkland | 570 | 18.1% | 76.3% |
| Spiritridge Elementary School Bellevue | 546 | 19.8% | 67.3% |
| Enatai Elementary School Bellevue | 518 | 21.4% | 65.0% |
| Mark Twain Elementary Kirkland | 550 | 16.7% | 71.9% |
| Clark Elementary ISSAQUAH | 586 | 28.3% | 69.7% |
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 Wood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.4% | #25 of 936 | #3 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.4% | #26 of 1,103 ▲ 6 | #3 of 106 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.7% | #15 of 1,102 ▲ 7 | #1 of 106 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.7pp | #344 of 928 | #27 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 682 | #39 of 1,268 | #10 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #958 of 1,085 | #99 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #257 of 1,088 | #31 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #1,007 of 1,169 | #93 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.3% | #575 of 778 | #38 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
682
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
+14% since 2000-01, when it was 599
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 682 | 38.2 | 17.9:1 | 23% (154) |
| 2023-24 | 691 | 38.4 | 18.0:1 | 27% (184) |
| 2022-23 | 707 | 38.4 | 18.4:1 | 20% (140) |
| 2020-21 | 698 | 41 | 17.0:1 | 14% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 752 | 38.5 | 19.5:1 | 7% (52) |
| 2015-16 | 683 | 34 | 20.1:1 | 12% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 538 | 27 | 19.9:1 | 10% (53) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 28 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Wood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (752 to 682); teachers down 1% (38.5 to 38.2).
About Cedar Wood Elementary
Cedar Wood Elementary is a large elementary school located in Bothell, Washington. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 682 students. It has 79% more students than the average for elementary schools in Washington (about 380).
Everett School District has 32 schools and 20,489 students, and Cedar Wood Elementary is one of those schools.
At Cedar Wood Elementary, Asian students make up the biggest share, 40%. Other groups make up 31% White, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 4% Black. County-wide, 14% of Snohomish County residents are Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 71%.
On staff are 38.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.9:1. It is about the same as the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. About 23% of students at Cedar Wood Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 41% average for public schools in Snohomish County.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for Cedar Wood Elementary is 65.1%. It actually posts 84.4%, which is 19.4 points higher and in the top 10% of Washington schools.
In Snohomish County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $111,246, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 227 public schools and about 118,688 students.
Woodside Elementary is about 0.7 miles from Cedar Wood Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Cedar Wood Elementary places 3rd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The federal government classifies Cedar Wood Elementary's location as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 698 to 682.
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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 Everett School District
- Henry M. Jackson High SchoolHigh · 2,148 students
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Heatherwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,031 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
Other schools in Bothell
- North Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,910 students
- Bothell High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- Lynnwood High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Skyview Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,215 students
- Canyon Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 907 students
- Canyon Creek ElementaryElementary · 866 students
Nearby schools
- Woodside Elementary0.7 mi · 581
- Tambark Creek Elementary School0.9 mi · 740
- Mill Creek Elementary1.2 mi · 694
- North Creek High School1.4 mi · 1,910
- Gateway Middle School1.7 mi · 1,057
- Forest View Elementary School1.7 mi · 634
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Wood ElementaryHow large is Cedar Wood Elementary?
Cedar Wood Elementary enrolls approximately 682 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cedar Wood Elementary serve?
Cedar Wood Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Cedar Wood Elementary have?
Cedar Wood Elementary employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Cedar Wood Elementary?
Student demographics at Cedar Wood Elementary are roughly 31% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 40% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Cedar Wood Elementary?
Cedar Wood Elementary is overseen by Everett School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.