Forest View Elementary School

Forest View Elementary School, a sprawling elementary school in Everett, Washington, part of Everett School District, serves 634 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 67% bigger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.

Everett School District comprises 32 schools with combined enrollment of 20,489 students; Forest View Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Forest View Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Asian (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Forest View Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Snohomish County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Forest View Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 70.3%; Forest View Elementary School posts 83.0%, +12.8 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Snohomish County's 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), Forest View Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gateway Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest View Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Forest View Elementary School comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 73.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Forest View Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 773 (now 634). The White share of enrollment shrank from 54% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 today.

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