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Enrollment
462
Elementary
DISTRICT 440 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YELM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531014002393
Fort Stevens Elementary
16525 100th Way SE, Yelm, WA 98597 · (360) 458-4800 · Thurston County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL462 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
269 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 | 5 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
56.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.3pp since 2014
Math
62.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +7.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 up about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 62.8% |
| 2023-24 | 49.6% | 53.1% |
| 2022-23 | 47.1% | 47.6% |
| 2021-22 | 42.8% | 46.6% |
| 2018-19 | 59.6% | 56.8% |
| 2017-18 | 55.2% | 58.2% |
| 2016-17 | 52.5% | 53.1% |
| 2015-16 | 59.3% | 55.1% |
| 2014-15 | 56.3% | 55.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% 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 14 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 Fort Stevens Elementary
Fort Stevens Elementary's state test result (55.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Stevens Elementary this school | 462 | 58.2% | 55.1% |
| Rocky Ridge Elementary Graham | 430 | 60.9% | 46.4% |
| Burton Elementary School Vancouver | 452 | 58.2% | N/A |
| Pinewood Elementary Marysville | 398 | 56.8% | 49.6% |
| Lakewood Elementary School Marysville | 458 | 54.1% | 24.9% |
| Silver Star Elementary School Vancouver | 381 | 59.8% | N/A |
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 Fort Stevens Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Thurston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #346 of 936 | #12 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #225 of 1,103 ▲ 153 | #2 of 39 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #386 of 1,102 ▲ 124 | #14 of 39 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +14.7pp | #29 of 928 | #2 of 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 462 | #407 of 1,268 | #17 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #417 of 1,085 | #13 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #481 of 1,088 | #21 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.2% | #474 of 1,169 | #10 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.3% | #493 of 778 | #15 of 27 |
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
462
-24 (-5%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 462 | 30.2 | 15.3:1 | 58% (269) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 33.2 | 14.8:1 | 57% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 511 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 63% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 32 | 15.2:1 | 62% (303) |
| 2017-18 | 533 | 33.3 | 16.0:1 | 50% (269) |
| 2015-16 | 575 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 52% (301) |
| 2010-11 | 508 | 29 | 17.5:1 | 48% (242) |
| 2000-01 | 408 | 21 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 13 | 27.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fort Stevens Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (533 to 462); teachers down 9% (33.3 to 30.2).
About Fort Stevens Elementary
Yelm, Washington, is home to Fort Stevens Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. It enrolls 462 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That is 22% larger than the average of about 380 students for elementary schools in Washington.
In Yelm School District, 10 schools enroll a combined 5,671 students.
At Fort Stevens Elementary, 55% of students are White. Smaller groups are 25% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Thurston County is roughly 72% White. The diversity index for Fort Stevens Elementary is 62%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Fort Stevens Elementary has 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. The gap from the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is 2.0 students per teacher. At Fort Stevens Elementary, 58% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 15 points above the 43% average for public schools in Thurston County.
Test results at Fort Stevens Elementary are 14.0 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate across its state test results is 55.1%, compared with a predicted 41.1%, which ranks in the top 10% in Washington.
Census data for Thurston County show median household income comes to about $96,563, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. There are 86 public schools in the county, enrolling about 44,412, Fort Stevens Elementary among them.
Yelm Extension School is about 0.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Fort Stevens Elementary's average proficiency of 55.1% compares with 46.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Fort Stevens Elementary is coded as Town: Fringe in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 5%, from 486 to 462.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Fort Stevens Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Thurston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
299,067
Census ACS
Median income
$96,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
44,412 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yelm School District
- Yelm High School 12High · 1,693 students
- Southworth ElementaryElementary · 671 students
- Yelm Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
- Ridgeline Middle SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Yelm Prairie ElementaryElementary · 427 students
- McKenna ElementaryElementary · 418 students
Other schools in Yelm
- Yelm High School 12High · 1,693 students
- Southworth ElementaryElementary · 671 students
- Yelm Middle SchoolMiddle · 652 students
- Ridgeline Middle SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- Yelm Prairie ElementaryElementary · 427 students
- Mill Pond Elementary SchoolElementary · 374 students
Nearby schools
- Yelm Extension School0.8 mi · 116
- Yelm Middle School1.0 mi · 652
- Yelm Prairie Elementary1.0 mi · 427
- Mill Pond Elementary School1.3 mi · 374
- Ridgeline Middle School1.4 mi · 568
- McKenna Elementary1.6 mi · 418
Frequently asked questions
About Fort Stevens ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Fort Stevens Elementary?
Fort Stevens Elementary enrolls approximately 462 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Fort Stevens Elementary serve?
Fort Stevens Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Fort Stevens Elementary have?
Fort Stevens Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Fort Stevens Elementary?
Student demographics at Fort Stevens Elementary are roughly 55% White, 25% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Fort Stevens Elementary public or private?
Fort Stevens Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Yelm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.