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Cherry Valley Elementary School
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Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cherry Valley Elementary School
Set in Duvall, Washington, Cherry Valley Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school, one of the schools within Riverview School District. It works with 445 students across grades K through 5.
Across the 7 schools in Riverview School District (2,996 students total), Cherry Valley Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Cherry Valley Elementary School shows that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Cherry Valley Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of King County's rate of about 38%.
After controlling for student poverty, Cherry Valley Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.6%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +0.3 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (King County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Cherry Valley Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Cedarcrest High School, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cherry Valley Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 72.7%.
Cherry Valley Elementary School operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cherry Valley Elementary School has shrank 14%, going from 518 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 75% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for Cherry Valley Elementary School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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