Enrollment
336
Elementary
DISTRICT 405 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENINSULA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530669000982
Evergreen Elementary
1820 Key Peninsula Hwy KPS, Lakebay, WA 98349 · (253) 530-1300 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL336 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 69% of Washington public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
16.0:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
195 students
DISTRICT 26% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 15 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
52.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.6pp since 2014
Math
41.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.8% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.7% | 47.2% |
| 2022-23 | 51.2% | 44.2% |
| 2021-22 | 58.3% | 33.9% |
| 2018-19 | 66.7% | 56.3% |
| 2017-18 | 56.6% | 48.3% |
| 2016-17 | 49.6% | 41.2% |
| 2015-16 | 51.0% | 49.5% |
| 2014-15 | 52.2% | 50.4% |
% 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
51.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Evergreen Elementary
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Elementary this school | 336 | 58.0% | 51.1% |
| Columbia Valley Garden Elem Schl Longview | 362 | 56.1% | N/A |
| Columbia Heights Elementary Longview | 331 | 57.7% | N/A |
| Darrington Elementary School DARRINGTON | 351 | 61.8% | 28.6% |
| Franklin Elementary PORT ANGELES | 318 | 56.0% | N/A |
| Salnave Elementary CHENEY | 347 | 53.0% | 43.7% |
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 Evergreen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #411 of 936 | #68 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #633 of 1,103 ▼ 141 | #88 of 142 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.8% | #450 of 1,102 ▲ 32 | #64 of 142 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #511 of 928 | #73 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 336 | #845 of 1,268 | #119 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #596 of 1,085 | #70 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.5% | #911 of 1,088 | #137 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.0% | #480 of 1,169 | #58 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.8% | #37 of 257 | #4 of 43 |
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
336
+120 (+56%) vs 2020
+37% since 1990-91, when it was 246
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 12.0:1
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 | 336 | 21 | 16.0:1 | 58% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 330 | 20.6 | 16.0:1 | 62% (206) |
| 2022-23 | 280 | 17.7 | 15.8:1 | 63% (175) |
| 2020-21 | 216 | 18 | 12.0:1 | 50% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 267 | 18 | 14.8:1 | 62% (165) |
| 2015-16 | 222 | 17 | 13.1:1 | 61% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 248 | 14 | 17.7:1 | 50% (125) |
| 2000-01 | 314 | 15 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 246 | 11 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Evergreen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (267 to 336); teachers up 17% (18 to 21).
About Evergreen Elementary
Evergreen Elementary is an elementary school in Lakebay, Washington, according to federal school records. It enrolls 336 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5.
Peninsula School District is the local district for Evergreen Elementary. It runs 17 schools with 9,015 students.
The student body at Evergreen Elementary is 75% White. The rest of enrollment is 14% Hispanic and 10% multiracial. Among all residents of Pierce County, the White share is about 64%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 41%.
There are about 16.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Evergreen Elementary, which has 21. Elementary schools in Washington have an average ratio of 17.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 58%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Evergreen Elementary outscored 69%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Evergreen Elementary is 9.8 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (51.1% versus 41.3%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
In Pierce County, the median household earns about $99,564 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Pierce County, 287 public schools serve about 138,462 students.
Measured in a straight line, Key Peninsula Middle School is about 4.7 miles from Evergreen Elementary. The ten-mile area around Evergreen Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Evergreen Elementary ranks 6th on proficiency.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Federal data put enrollment at 216 in 2020-21 and 336 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 16.0:1, from 12.0:1.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Peninsula School District
- Gig Harbor HighHigh · 1,375 students
- Peninsula High SchoolHigh · 1,345 students
- Harbor Ridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 627 students
- Goodman Middle SchoolMiddle · 519 students
- Swift Water ElementaryElementary · 519 students
- Kopachuck Middle SchoolMiddle · 516 students
Other Evergreen Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 13 states are named Evergreen Elementary. Evergreen Elementary is the 24th largest of the 30.
- Evergreen ElementarySpanaway, WA · 530 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolSedro-Woolley, WA · 511 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolJBLM Lewis Main, WA · 442 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolSPOKANE, WA · 433 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolShelton, WA · 378 students
Nearby schools
- Key Peninsula Middle School4.7 mi · 444
- Anderson Island Elementary6.0 mi · 19
- Kopachuck Middle School6.3 mi · 516
- Voyager Elementary6.4 mi · 443
- Vaughn Elementary School7.2 mi · 326
- Artondale Elementary School8.0 mi · 413
Frequently asked questions
About Evergreen ElementaryHow many students attend Evergreen Elementary?
Evergreen Elementary enrolls approximately 336 students in grades PK-05.
Is Evergreen Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Evergreen Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Evergreen Elementary have?
Evergreen Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Evergreen Elementary?
Student demographics at Evergreen Elementary are roughly 75% White, 14% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Evergreen Elementary?
Evergreen Elementary is overseen by Peninsula School District in Pierce County.
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