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If you could change one rule at Edison Elementary School, what would it be?
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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WALLA WALLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 530945001600
Edison Elementary School
1315 E ALDER ST, WALLA WALLA, WA 99362 · (509) 527-3072 · Walla Walla County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Washington public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-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
15.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 30.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
335 students
DISTRICT 71% · 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 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 75 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (75).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · 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
39.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.2pp since 2014
Math
38.9%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.4% | 38.9% |
| 2023-24 | 34.9% | 33.5% |
| 2022-23 | 42.1% | 38.9% |
| 2021-22 | 38.8% | 33.8% |
| 2018-19 | 38.4% | 35.4% |
| 2017-18 | 36.6% | 23.8% |
| 2016-17 | 38.3% | 31.8% |
| 2015-16 | 43.5% | 33.2% |
| 2014-15 | 42.5% | 36.4% |
% 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
38.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Edison Elementary School
Edison Elementary School's state test result (38.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edison Elementary School this school | 464 | 72.2% | 38.9% |
| Connell Elem Connell | 491 | 76.4% | 33.7% |
| Keene-Riverview Elementary Prosser | 407 | 75.2% | N/A |
| Madison Elementary Mount Vernon | 498 | 68.3% | 30.4% |
| Prosser Heights Elementary Prosser | 412 | 71.1% | N/A |
| Warden Elementary WARDEN | 416 | 77.9% | 29.4% |
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 Edison Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Walla Walla County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #651 of 936 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #687 of 1,103 ▲ 101 | #6 of 9 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #768 of 1,102 ▲ 79 | #6 of 9 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #390 of 928 | #7 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #405 of 1,268 | #3 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #568 of 1,085 | #7 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.7% | #907 of 1,088 | #7 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.2% | #221 of 1,169 | #4 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.6% | #91 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
464
+40 (+9%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 360
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 464 | 29.2 | 15.9:1 | 72% (335) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 29.2 | 15.7:1 | 77% (351) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 29.2 | 15.0:1 | 73% (319) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 67% (286) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 27 | 15.0:1 | 73% (294) |
| 2015-16 | 443 | 28 | 15.8:1 | 74% (329) |
| 2010-11 | 501 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 59% (297) |
| 2000-01 | 305 | 15 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 360 | 16 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Edison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (405 to 464); teachers up 8% (27 to 29.2).
About Edison Elementary School
Edison Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in WALLA WALLA, Washington, under Walla Walla Public Schools. A federal count lists 464 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
In Walla Walla Public Schools, 16 schools enroll a combined 5,410 students.
Edison Elementary School's enrollment is 74% Hispanic. Other groups make up 22% White and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 24% of Walla Walla County residents are Hispanic. By the diversity index, Edison Elementary School comes in at 41%.
Edison Elementary School operates with 29.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 15.9:1. That ratio is under the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Edison Elementary School reports 72% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 9 points above the 63% average for public schools in Walla Walla County.
allk12 grades Edison Elementary School 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, Edison Elementary School's results are 7.1 points above predicted: 38.9% against 31.8%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Walla Walla County show that median household income is about $74,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Edison Elementary School is one of 33 public schools in Walla Walla County, which together enroll about 8,516 students.
Of nearby public schools, Pioneer Middle School is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Edison Elementary School is ahead of the 37.6% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 5.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 424 to 464.
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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 Walla Walla Public Schools
- Walla Walla High SchoolHigh · 1,554 students
- Pioneer Middle SchoolMiddle · 601 students
- Garrison Middle SchoolMiddle · 546 students
- Green Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Prospect Point ElementaryElementary · 414 students
- Sharpstein Elementary SchoolElementary · 340 students
Other schools in WALLA WALLA
- Walla Walla High SchoolHigh · 1,554 students
- Pioneer Middle SchoolMiddle · 601 students
- Garrison Middle SchoolMiddle · 546 students
- Green Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Prospect Point ElementaryElementary · 414 students
- Sharpstein Elementary SchoolElementary · 340 students
Other Edison Elementary schools
37 other US public schools in 19 states are named Edison Elementary. Edison Elementary School is the 10th largest of the 38.
- Edison Elementary SchoolTacoma, WA · 413 students
- Edison ElementaryEDISON, WA · 390 students
- Edison Elementary SchoolKENNEWICK, WA · 378 students
- Edison ElementaryCentralia, WA · 313 students
- Edison ElementaryOntario, CA · 736 students
Nearby schools
- Pioneer Middle School0.2 mi · 601
- Walla Walla Open Doors0.5 mi · 105
- Berney Elementary School0.6 mi · 324
- Green Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 526
- Sharpstein Elementary School0.8 mi · 340
- Homelink1.1 mi · 47
Frequently asked questions
About Edison Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Edison Elementary School?
Edison Elementary School enrolls approximately 464 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Edison Elementary School serve?
Edison Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Edison Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Edison Elementary School is approximately 15.9:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Edison Elementary School?
At Edison Elementary School, the student body is approximately 22% White, 74% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Edison Elementary School in?
Edison Elementary School is part of Walla Walla Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.