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What advice would you give to incoming students at Evergreen Elementary School?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHELTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530790001293
Evergreen Elementary School
900 W. Franklin St., Shelton, WA 98584 · (360) 426-8281 · Mason County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Washington public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
12.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
309 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 72 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (69).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Evergreen Elementary School→Olympic Middle School
Based on grade levels within Shelton School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
21.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.9pp since 2014
Math
11.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -25.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 21 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 down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 25 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.4% | 11.0% |
| 2023-24 | 15.9% | 12.3% |
| 2022-23 | 13.4% | 11.2% |
| 2021-22 | 13.2% | 10.2% |
| 2018-19 | 18.0% | 12.7% |
| 2017-18 | 22.0% | 15.2% |
| 2016-17 | 28.9% | 27.4% |
| 2015-16 | 26.6% | 23.9% |
| 2014-15 | 26.3% | 36.1% |
% 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
15.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% 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
Evergreen Elementary School's state test result (15.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Elementary School this school | 378 | 81.7% | 15.2% |
| Allen Elementary BOW | 386 | 79.0% | 23.0% |
| Centennial Elementary School Mount Vernon | 430 | 79.5% | 33.5% |
| Gilbert Elementary School Yakima | 415 | 77.8% | 40.1% |
| Finley Elementary KENNEWICK | 367 | 80.1% | N/A |
| Whitney Elementary Yakima | 433 | 81.1% | 37.0% |
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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Mason County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.2% | #927 of 936 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #1,093 of 1,103 ▼ 7 | #9 of 9 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.4% | #1,057 of 1,102 ▲ 24 | #9 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #294 of 928 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #721 of 1,268 | #6 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #48 of 1,085 | #1 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #774 of 1,088 | #8 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.7% | #98 of 1,169 | #1 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -36.3% | #54 of 778 | #1 of 6 |
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
378
-68 (-15%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 373
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 378 | 29.8 | 12.7:1 | 82% (309) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 32.3 | 13.6:1 | 83% (363) |
| 2022-23 | 429 | 31.8 | 13.5:1 | 86% (371) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 36 | 12.4:1 | 88% (391) |
| 2017-18 | 593 | 37.8 | 15.7:1 | 87% (516) |
| 2015-16 | 560 | 36 | 15.6:1 | 90% (502) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 33 | 14.9:1 | 87% (428) |
| 2000-01 | 438 | 23 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 373 | 17 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Evergreen Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 36% (593 to 378); teachers down 21% (37.8 to 29.8).
About Evergreen Elementary School
Evergreen Elementary School is an elementary school in Shelton, Washington, and it is part of Shelton School District. It reported 378 students in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25.
Shelton School District counts 10 schools and 4,517 students, including Evergreen Elementary School.
The share of Hispanic students at Evergreen Elementary School is 64%, a majority. After that, the student body is 30% White and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Mason County is about 13% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 50, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Evergreen Elementary School is 12.7:1, based on 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Washington, 17.3:1, is higher. Evergreen Elementary School counts 82% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Mason County, the average eligibility rate is 63%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Evergreen Elementary School outscored 3%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Evergreen Elementary School, the prediction is 25.4% and the result is 15.2%.
Mason County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $83,270 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Mason County number 26, with about 8,539 students.
Measured in a straight line, Choice Middle and High School is less than a tenth of a mile from Evergreen Elementary School. The five-mile area around Evergreen Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 33.1%, higher than Evergreen Elementary School's 15.2%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 15% decline, from 446 to 378.
Anyone can start a thread about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Evergreen Elementary School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Mason County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
67,982
Census ACS
Median income
$83,270
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
8,539 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Shelton School District
- Shelton High SchoolHigh · 1,455 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 671 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 601 students
- Oakland Bay Junior High SchoolMiddle · 544 students
- Bordeaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Choice Middle and High SchoolHigh · 217 students
Other schools in Shelton
- Shelton High SchoolHigh · 1,455 students
- Mountain View ElementaryElementary · 671 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 601 students
- Oakland Bay Junior High SchoolMiddle · 544 students
- Bordeaux Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolElementary · 482 students
Other Evergreen Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 13 states are named Evergreen Elementary. Evergreen Elementary School is the 21st 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 ElementaryLakebay, WA · 336 students
Nearby schools
- Choice Middle and High School0.1 mi · 217
- Mason County Detention Center0.2 mi · 1
- Shelton Open Doors0.4 mi · 22
- Mountain View Elementary1.0 mi · 671
- Cedar High School1.0 mi · 100
- Olympic Middle School1.0 mi · 601
Frequently asked questions
About Evergreen Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Evergreen Elementary School?
Evergreen Elementary School enrolls approximately 378 students in grades PK-04.
Is Evergreen Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Evergreen Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Evergreen Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Evergreen Elementary School is approximately 12.7:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Evergreen Elementary School?
Evergreen Elementary School reports a student body of 30% White, 64% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Evergreen Elementary School?
Evergreen Elementary School is overseen by Shelton School District in Mason County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.