Enrollment
447
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530657000964
Emerson Elementary
1616 W OCTAVE ST, PASCO, WA 99301 · (509) 543-6792 · Franklin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL447 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
397 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
15.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +3.3pp since 2014
Math
11.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -5.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.9% | 11.4% |
| 2023-24 | 14.8% | 9.4% |
| 2022-23 | 12.7% | 8.1% |
| 2021-22 | 18.0% | 7.7% |
| 2018-19 | 22.4% | 18.5% |
| 2017-18 | 23.5% | 17.7% |
| 2016-17 | 15.0% | 11.7% |
| 2015-16 | 14.3% | 14.2% |
| 2014-15 | 12.5% | 16.5% |
% 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
12.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Emerson Elementary
Emerson Elementary's state test result (12.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Elementary this school | 447 | 88.8% | 12.8% |
| Robert Frost Elementary PASCO | 459 | 89.1% | 17.0% |
| Sun Valley Elementary School Sunnyside | 474 | 87.8% | N/A |
| Virgie Robinson Elementary Pasco | 473 | 89.4% | 21.9% |
| Rowena Chess Elementary PASCO | 436 | 91.1% | 11.5% |
| Smith Elementary School Grandview | 477 | 86.4% | 28.4% |
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 Emerson Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.8% | #933 of 936 | #17 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.4% | #1,092 of 1,103 ▲ 4 | #18 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #1,083 of 1,102 ▲ 3 | #16 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #510 of 928 | #12 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 447 | #456 of 1,268 | #12 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #449 of 1,085 | #12 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.4% | #1,070 of 1,088 | #16 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.8% | #37 of 1,169 | #8 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.3% | #62 of 778 | #7 of 17 |
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
447
+48 (+12%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 447 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 89% (397) |
| 2023-24 | 422 | 26.4 | 16.0:1 | 94% (397) |
| 2022-23 | 391 | 27.5 | 14.2:1 | 94% (369) |
| 2020-21 | 399 | 26 | 15.3:1 | 88% (350) |
| 2017-18 | 691 | 38 | 18.2:1 | 92% (637) |
| 2015-16 | 634 | 33 | 19.2:1 | 94% (598) |
| 2010-11 | 524 | 29 | 18.1:1 | 94% (494) |
| 2000-01 | 523 | 29 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 23 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerson Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (691 to 447); teachers down 24% (38 to 29).
About Emerson Elementary
This page covers Emerson Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school in PASCO, Washington. It covers pre-K through 5, with a total enrollment of 447 students.
Emerson Elementary belongs to Pasco School District, a district of 28 schools and 18,913 students.
Federal enrollment data show Emerson Elementary is 94% Hispanic. It is also 3% White and 2% multiracial. Franklin County's residents are about 55% Hispanic, 38 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 12% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1. On average, elementary schools in Washington have 17.3:1, compared with 15.4:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Emerson Elementary is 89%. Among public schools in Franklin County, the average eligibility rate is 70%.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 12.8%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 20.6%.
County data help place the school in context: in Franklin County, the median household income is $86,714, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. In all, Franklin County has 43 public schools and roughly 21,403 students.
The closest other public school is Pasco Senior High School, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Emerson Elementary is 5th of 7 on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 12% from 2020-21, when Emerson Elementary had 399 students, to 2024-25, when it had 447.
To ask about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs, start a discussion on this page. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,902
Census ACS
Median income
$86,714
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
21,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pasco School District
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Other schools in PASCO
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Other Emerson Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 18 states are named Emerson Elementary. Emerson Elementary is the 9th largest of the 36.
- Emerson Elementary SchoolEverett, WA · 662 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolSEATTLE, WA · 398 students
- Emerson ElementaryHoquiam, WA · 212 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 990 students
- Emerson Elementary SchoolMESA, AZ · 717 students
Nearby schools
- Pasco Senior High School0.4 mi · 2,590
- Captain Gray STEM Elementary0.4 mi · 408
- Stevens Middle School0.5 mi · 956
- Rowena Chess Elementary0.5 mi · 436
- Pasco Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 318
- Longfellow Elementary0.6 mi · 312
Frequently asked questions
About Emerson ElementaryHow large is Emerson Elementary?
Emerson Elementary enrolls approximately 447 students in grades PK-05.
Is Emerson Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Emerson Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Emerson Elementary have?
Emerson Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Emerson Elementary?
Student demographics at Emerson Elementary are roughly 3% White, 94% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Emerson Elementary in?
Emerson Elementary is part of Pasco School District.
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