Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl

Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl operates as a moderately sized primary school in Longview, Washington, run under Longview School District. Current enrollment sits at 362 students spanning grades K through 5.

Longview School District comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 6,382 students; Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl logs that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Cowlitz County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,531 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Cowlitz County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,080 students), of which Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl is one.

Cascade Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl has contracted 12%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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