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What's the one class at Emerald Heights Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
466
Elementary
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530108000757
Emerald Heights Elementary
NW PINNACLE CT, SILVERDALE, WA 98383 · (360) 662-8500 · Kitsap County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL466 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Washington public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-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
17.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
150 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 12 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 35% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
75.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.5pp since 2014
Math
71.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -0.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.2% | 71.8% |
| 2023-24 | 75.9% | 71.0% |
| 2022-23 | 76.2% | 62.1% |
| 2021-22 | 76.2% | 62.6% |
| 2018-19 | 77.8% | 75.7% |
| 2017-18 | 80.5% | 78.2% |
| 2016-17 | 79.1% | 75.2% |
| 2015-16 | 82.9% | 77.1% |
| 2014-15 | 75.7% | 72.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Emerald Heights Elementary
Emerald Heights Elementary's state test result (73.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald Heights Elementary this school | 466 | 32.2% | 73.1% |
| Saltars Point Elementary Steilacoom | 437 | 31.6% | 53.9% |
| Hillcrest Elementary Oak Harbor | 460 | 34.1% | 71.6% |
| Black Diamond Elementary Black Diamond | 414 | 34.3% | 51.2% |
| Michael Anderson Elementary School Fairchild AFB | 459 | 33.1% | 58.3% |
| Victor Falls Elementary Bonney Lake | 513 | 32.9% | 65.2% |
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 Emerald Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #106 of 936 | #5 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #112 of 1,103 ▲ 9 | #5 of 38 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #95 of 1,102 ▼ 2 | #4 of 38 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.1pp | #308 of 928 | #11 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 466 | #398 of 1,268 | #7 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #845 of 1,085 | #35 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #430 of 1,088 | #13 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #907 of 1,169 | #32 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #721 of 778 | #29 of 32 |
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
466
+43 (+10%) vs 2020
-17% since 2000-01, when it was 563
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
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 | 466 | 27.2 | 17.1:1 | 32% (150) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 27.7 | 17.0:1 | 31% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 27.3 | 17.5:1 | 32% (153) |
| 2020-21 | 423 | 28 | 15.1:1 | 14% (60) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 27.1 | 17.7:1 | 13% (61) |
| 2015-16 | 609 | 32 | 19.0:1 | 24% (146) |
| 2010-11 | 553 | 28 | 19.8:1 | 18% (102) |
| 2000-01 | 563 | 29 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerald Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (480 to 466); teachers unchanged (27.1 to 27.2).
About Emerald Heights Elementary
Emerald Heights Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in SILVERDALE, Washington, under Central Kitsap School District. It teaches 466 students in pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Washington enroll about 380 students on average.
Central Kitsap School District counts 19 schools and 11,100 students, including Emerald Heights Elementary.
Of every 100 students at Emerald Heights Elementary, about 55 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 3% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 75%. The diversity index for Emerald Heights Elementary is 64%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 27.2 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 17.3:1. About 32% of students at Emerald Heights Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 41% average among public schools in Kitsap County.
Emerald Heights Elementary earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 96% of Washington public elementary schools.
Emerald Heights Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Washington schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 73.1%. Predicted: 58.6%. Difference: 14.5 points.
In Kitsap County, median household income comes to about $104,158, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Kitsap County counts 77 public schools with about 34,233 students.
Of the public schools around it, Emerald Heights Elementary is closest to Silver Ridge Elementary, about 1.1 miles away. Emerald Heights Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Emerald Heights Elementary's average proficiency of 73.1% compares with 48.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment rose by 10% across 4 years, from 423 in 2020-21 to 466 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 15.1:1 in 2020-21 to 17.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Central Kitsap School District
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
Other schools in SILVERDALE
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Clear Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
- Silver Ridge ElementaryElementary · 430 students
Nearby schools
- Silver Ridge Elementary1.1 mi · 430
- Ridgetop Middle School1.1 mi · 784
- Clear Creek Elementary School1.8 mi · 448
- Hilder Pearson Elementary2.1 mi · 286
- Central Kitsap High School2.2 mi · 1,564
- Central Kitsap Middle School2.2 mi · 564
Frequently asked questions
About Emerald Heights ElementaryHow large is Emerald Heights Elementary?
Emerald Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 466 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Emerald Heights Elementary serve?
Emerald Heights Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Emerald Heights Elementary?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at Emerald Heights Elementary.
How diverse is Emerald Heights Elementary?
Emerald Heights Elementary reports a student body of 55% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Emerald Heights Elementary?
Emerald Heights Elementary is overseen by Central Kitsap School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.