Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy

Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy is a K-5 school of intimate scale in Ashford, Washington, one of the schools within Eatonville School District, hosting 209 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 380.

Eatonville School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 1,995 students. Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest looks like 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Pierce County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of +0.6 points.

In the broader community, Pierce County reports that median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy is one campus in the mix.

Eatonville Online Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.7 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 42.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Columbia Crest A-STEM Academy's enrollment has climbed 15% since 2018, when it stood at 182 (now 209). Class-load math has rose: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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