Discovery Elementary

Discovery Elementary is a substantial elementary-level community in Everett, Washington, run under Mukilteo School District. The school enrolls 648 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 71% larger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Mukilteo School District comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 15,175 students; Discovery Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Discovery Elementary records that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 25% White, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Discovery Elementary records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Discovery Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Snohomish County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Discovery Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Snohomish County shows median household income runs about $111,246, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Snohomish County's 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), Discovery Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Voyager Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Discovery Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

Discovery Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 602 students in 2018 compared to 648 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 33% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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