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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 478 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530591000881
Crystal Springs Elementary
21615 9 AV SE, Bothell, WA 98021 · (425) 408-4300 · Snohomish County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
175 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · 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
64.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -1.3pp since 2014
Math
63.0%
WA avg 51.2% . +3.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 1 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.7% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.8% | 56.5% |
| 2022-23 | 56.1% | 52.3% |
| 2021-22 | 55.4% | 49.8% |
| 2018-19 | 63.2% | 56.5% |
| 2017-18 | 68.8% | 66.0% |
| 2016-17 | 64.3% | 62.3% |
| 2015-16 | 70.9% | 66.4% |
| 2014-15 | 66.0% | 59.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
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 Crystal Springs Elementary
Crystal Springs Elementary's state test result (61.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Springs Elementary this school | 500 | 35.0% | 61.8% |
| Phantom Lake Elementary Bellevue | 430 | 35.1% | 65.3% |
| Lake Youngs Elementary School Kent | 416 | 33.9% | 65.7% |
| Clark Elementary ISSAQUAH | 586 | 28.3% | 69.7% |
| Redmond Elementary Redmond | 543 | 29.7% | 65.7% |
| Carriage Crest Elementary School Renton | 324 | 32.7% | 51.6% |
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 Crystal Springs Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.8% | #233 of 936 | #30 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #220 of 1,103 ▲ 91 | #23 of 106 ▲ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #226 of 1,102 ▲ 93 | #27 of 106 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.3pp | #61 of 928 | #2 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #287 of 1,268 | #54 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #891 of 1,085 | #88 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.4% | #178 of 1,088 | #16 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.0% | #870 of 1,169 | #69 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #395 of 778 | #17 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
500
-52 (-9%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 443
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 500 | 28.8 | 17.4:1 | 35% (175) |
| 2023-24 | 504 | 32.3 | 15.6:1 | 37% (185) |
| 2022-23 | 494 | 33.2 | 14.9:1 | 33% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 34 | 16.2:1 | 21% (115) |
| 2017-18 | 598 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 21% (126) |
| 2015-16 | 680 | 36 | 18.9:1 | 26% (177) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 27 | 20.3:1 | 28% (153) |
| 2000-01 | 590 | 30 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 443 | 24 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Crystal Springs Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (598 to 500); teachers down 22% (37 to 28.8).
About Crystal Springs Elementary
Crystal Springs Elementary is a public mid-sized elementary school in Bothell, Washington. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 500 students. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 32% higher.
Northshore School District (37 schools, 22,735 students) runs Crystal Springs Elementary.
The biggest share of students at Crystal Springs Elementary, 33%, is White. The rest of enrollment is 33% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 4% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Snohomish County's population at about 64%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Crystal Springs Elementary scores 73%.
Crystal Springs Elementary reported 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is similar, at 17.3:1. There are 175 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 35% of enrollment.
Crystal Springs Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 61.8% and a predicted 56.7%.
Census data for Snohomish County show median household income comes to about $111,246, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. There are 227 public schools in the county, enrolling about 118,688, Crystal Springs Elementary among them.
Frank Love Elementary, about 0.8 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Crystal Springs Elementary is 6th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Crystal Springs Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 9% decline, from 552 to 500. The ratio was 16.2:1 in 2020-21 and 17.4:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Northshore School District
- North Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,910 students
- Bothell High SchoolHigh · 1,740 students
- Woodinville HSHigh · 1,662 students
- Inglemoor HSHigh · 1,441 students
- Skyview Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,215 students
- Canyon Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 907 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
Other Crystal Springs Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Crystal Springs Elementary. Crystal Springs Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- CRYSTAL SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLJACKSONVILLE, FL · 883 students
- Crystal Springs ElementaryCrystal Springs, MS · 482 students
Nearby schools
- Frank Love Elementary0.8 mi · 492
- Innovation Lab High School0.9 mi · 252
- Secondary Academy for Success0.9 mi · 76
- Hilltop Elementary1.3 mi · 562
- Skyview Middle School1.4 mi · 1,215
- Shelton View Elementary1.4 mi · 513
Frequently asked questions
About Crystal Springs ElementaryHow many students attend Crystal Springs Elementary?
Crystal Springs Elementary enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Crystal Springs Elementary serve?
Crystal Springs Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Crystal Springs Elementary?
Approximately 17.4:1 students per teacher at Crystal Springs Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Crystal Springs Elementary?
Student demographics at Crystal Springs Elementary are roughly 33% White, 19% Hispanic, 4% Black, 33% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Crystal Springs Elementary?
Crystal Springs Elementary is overseen by Northshore School District in Snohomish County.
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