Evergreen Elementary School

Evergreen Elementary School is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in Shelton, Washington, one of the schools within Shelton School District, teacheing 378 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Across the 10 schools in Shelton School District (4,517 students total), Evergreen Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Evergreen Elementary School records that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 30% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Mason County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Evergreen Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 15.2%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mason County shows median household earnings sit near $83,270, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Evergreen Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Mason County (combined enrollment of about 8,539 students).

Choice Middle and High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Evergreen Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Evergreen Elementary School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 36%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 378 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.