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How has Emerson Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
662
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530267000394
Emerson Elementary School
8702 7th Ave. SE, Everett, WA 98208 · (425) 385-6200 · Snohomish County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL662 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
493 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 | 40 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 116 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (105) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (92).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
44.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.0pp since 2014
Math
44.4%
WA avg 51.2% . -1.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.8% | 44.4% |
| 2023-24 | 43.9% | 39.1% |
| 2022-23 | 38.9% | 36.8% |
| 2021-22 | 37.0% | 35.7% |
| 2018-19 | 55.9% | 44.0% |
| 2017-18 | 52.2% | 42.2% |
| 2016-17 | 47.6% | 44.7% |
| 2015-16 | 48.7% | 38.3% |
| 2014-15 | 56.8% | 46.0% |
% 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
42.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.2%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 30% 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 12 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 Emerson Elementary School
Emerson Elementary School's state test result (42.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson Elementary School this school | 662 | 74.5% | 42.5% |
| Terminal Park Elementary School AUBURN | 610 | 69.3% | 41.8% |
| Challenger Elementary Everett | 658 | 67.9% | 36.7% |
| Washington Elementary School AUBURN | 501 | 74.3% | 36.8% |
| Chester H Thompson Elementary TACOMA | 688 | 67.2% | 38.7% |
| Valhalla Elementary School AUBURN | 517 | 75.2% | 35.4% |
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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #569 of 936 | #70 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.4% | #547 of 1,103 ▲ 105 | #66 of 106 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #629 of 1,102 ▲ 2 | #75 of 106 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.2pp | #125 of 928 | #9 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 662 | #48 of 1,268 | #13 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #603 of 1,085 | #58 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.2% | #246 of 1,088 | #29 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.5% | #187 of 1,169 | #8 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.3% | #256 of 257 | #37 of 37 |
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
662
+64 (+11%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 563
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 662 | 41.3 | 16.0:1 | 74% (493) |
| 2023-24 | 634 | 38.1 | 16.7:1 | 77% (487) |
| 2022-23 | 621 | 38.3 | 16.2:1 | 64% (397) |
| 2020-21 | 598 | 34 | 17.6:1 | 64% (385) |
| 2017-18 | 660 | 39.1 | 16.9:1 | 55% (364) |
| 2015-16 | 616 | 33 | 18.7:1 | 69% (423) |
| 2010-11 | 620 | 29 | 21.4:1 | 60% (372) |
| 2000-01 | 599 | 29 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 563 | 24 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emerson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (660 to 662); teachers up 6% (39.1 to 41.3).
About Emerson Elementary School
This page covers Emerson Elementary School, a high-enrollment elementary school in Everett, Washington. A total of 662 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. Against the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington, enrollment here is 74% higher.
Federal data list 32 schools in Everett School District, with 20,489 students enrolled.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at Emerson Elementary School, at 43%. Enrollment also includes 29% White, 9% Black, 8% Asian, and 8% multiracial. Among people living in Snohomish County, the Hispanic share is about 12%. Emerson Elementary School's diversity index is 71%, against a US figure of 70%.
Emerson Elementary School's 41.3 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 16.0:1. That is lower than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 74%. The average for public schools in Snohomish County is 41%.
Test results at Emerson Elementary School are 12.3 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 42.5%, compared with a predicted 30.2%, which ranks in the top 10% in Washington.
Census Bureau estimates for Snohomish County show that the median household income is $111,246, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. There are 227 public schools in Snohomish County, enrolling about 118,688 students in all.
The shortest distance from Emerson Elementary School to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Cascade High School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 42.5% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 7 nearby schools.
The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 64 more students in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 16.0 students per teacher, compared with 17.6 in 2020-21.
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Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Everett School District
- Henry M. Jackson High SchoolHigh · 2,148 students
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Heatherwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,031 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
Other schools in Everett
- Mariner High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Voyager Middle SchoolMiddle · 902 students
Other Emerson Elementary schools
35 other US public schools in 18 states are named Emerson Elementary. Emerson Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 36.
- Emerson ElementaryPASCO, WA · 447 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
- Cascade High School0.4 mi · 1,651
- Evergreen Middle School0.6 mi · 890
- Horizon Elementary0.6 mi · 550
- Challenger Elementary1.0 mi · 658
- Mukilteo Reengagement Academy Open Doors1.1 mi · 81
- ACES High School1.1 mi · 130
Frequently asked questions
About Emerson Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School enrolls approximately 662 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Emerson Elementary School serve?
Emerson Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Emerson Elementary School?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Emerson Elementary School.
How diverse is Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School reports a student body of 29% White, 43% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Emerson Elementary School?
Emerson Elementary School is overseen by Everett School District in Snohomish County.
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