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How has Davis Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
698
Elementary
DISTRICT 383 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLLEGE PLACE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530147000275
Davis Elementary
31 SE ASH STREET, COLLEGE PLACE, WA 99324 · (509) 525-5110 · Walla Walla County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL698 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Washington public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
417 students
DISTRICT 59% · 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 | 32 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 112 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 136 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (136).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Davis Elementary→John Sager Middle School
Based on grade levels within College Place School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
44.3%
WA avg 58.4% . +12.9pp since 2014
Math
42.2%
WA avg 51.2% . +8.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.3% | 42.2% |
| 2023-24 | 50.3% | 50.6% |
| 2022-23 | 49.3% | 49.0% |
| 2021-22 | 47.7% | 43.3% |
| 2018-19 | 45.0% | 45.0% |
| 2017-18 | 42.7% | 40.2% |
| 2016-17 | 41.4% | 40.4% |
| 2015-16 | 34.5% | 35.4% |
| 2014-15 | 31.3% | 33.9% |
% 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
48.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Davis Elementary
Davis Elementary's state test result (48.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Elementary this school | 698 | 59.7% | 48.9% |
| Selah Intermediate School Selah | 806 | 60.8% | 36.4% |
| Washington Elementary School WENATCHEE | 554 | 56.7% | N/A |
| Three Rivers Elementary Pasco | 657 | 64.8% | 30.9% |
| Mountain View Elementary Shelton | 671 | 68.3% | 35.5% |
| VALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Cashmere | 638 | 52.0% | N/A |
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 Davis Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Walla Walla County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #450 of 936 | #3 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #597 of 1,103 ▼ 175 | #4 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #644 of 1,102 ▼ 153 | #4 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.2pp | #264 of 928 | #2 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 698 | #30 of 1,268 | #1 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #260 of 1,085 | #4 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.1% | #614 of 1,088 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.7% | #452 of 1,169 | #7 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.6% | #202 of 257 | N/A |
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
698
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 546
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 698 | 47.7 | 14.6:1 | 60% (417) |
| 2023-24 | 706 | 48.7 | 14.5:1 | 62% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 734 | 47.7 | 15.4:1 | 59% (436) |
| 2020-21 | 713 | 45 | 15.8:1 | 51% (366) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 36.8 | 18.3:1 | 56% (377) |
| 2015-16 | 648 | 38 | 17.1:1 | 65% (420) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 21 | 17.2:1 | 71% (257) |
| 2000-01 | 396 | 21 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 546 | 26 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Davis Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (674 to 698); teachers up 30% (36.8 to 47.7).
About Davis Elementary
Davis Elementary is an elementary school located in COLLEGE PLACE, Washington, in Walla Walla County. The school had 698 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Washington is about 380, so this school runs 84% larger than that.
College Place School District runs Davis Elementary along with 3 other schools, enrolling 1,531 students in total.
White students are the majority at Davis Elementary, with 51% of enrollment. It is also 43% Hispanic, 2% Black, and 2% multiracial. Walla Walla County's residents are about 73% White, 22 points above the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The count of teachers at Davis Elementary is 47.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 14.6:1. That is 2.7 students per teacher below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Around 60% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That tracks the 63% average for public schools in Walla Walla County.
allk12 grades Davis Elementary a B. The grade compares the school only with Washington public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Davis Elementary's results are 8.8 points above predicted: 48.9% against 40.1%.
Within Walla Walla County, the median household income is $74,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Besides Davis Elementary, Walla Walla County has 32 other public schools.
The school nearest to Davis Elementary is College Place High School, at a distance of about 1.2 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, Davis Elementary is 1st among 4 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Small. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 698, starting from 713. The number of students per teacher fell from 15.8 to 14.6 over 4 years.
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Walla Walla County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
62,161
Census ACS
Median income
$74,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
8,516 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in College Place School District
- College Place High SchoolHigh · 486 students
- John Sager Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- College Place Open Doors ProgramHigh · 13 students
Other schools in COLLEGE PLACE
- College Place High SchoolHigh · 486 students
- John Sager Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- College Place Open Doors ProgramHigh · 13 students
Other Davis Elementary schools
23 other US public schools in 17 states are named Davis Elementary. Davis Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 24.
- Davis Elementary SchoolIRVING, TX · 831 students
- Davis Elementary SchoolSouthampton, PA · 785 students
- Davis Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 643 students
- Davis Elementary SchoolMarietta, GA · 635 students
- Davis Elementary SchoolROYSE CITY, TX · 616 students
Nearby schools
- College Place High School1.2 mi · 486
- College Place Open Doors Program1.2 mi · 13
- John Sager Middle School1.2 mi · 334
- Walla Walla Center for Children and Families1.7 mi · 108
- Head Start1.7 mi · 112
- Garrison Middle School2.1 mi · 546
Frequently asked questions
About Davis ElementaryHow many students attend Davis Elementary?
Davis Elementary enrolls approximately 698 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Davis Elementary serve?
Davis Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Davis Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Davis Elementary is approximately 14.6:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Davis Elementary?
At Davis Elementary, the student body is approximately 51% White, 43% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Davis Elementary public or private?
Davis Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by College Place School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.