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Which teacher or staff member at Geneva Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
412
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLINGHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530042000105
Geneva Elementary School
1401 Geneva St, Bellingham, WA 98229 · (360) 676-6416 · Whatcom County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL412 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Washington public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
18.2:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
132 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
60.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.4pp since 2014
Math
42.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -18.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 18 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.8% | 42.1% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 49.5% |
| 2022-23 | 54.5% | 45.0% |
| 2021-22 | 51.8% | 37.3% |
| 2018-19 | 58.6% | 45.0% |
| 2017-18 | 58.3% | 57.1% |
| 2016-17 | 54.5% | 56.2% |
| 2015-16 | 58.3% | 63.3% |
| 2014-15 | 59.4% | 60.4% |
% 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
55.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Geneva Elementary School
Geneva Elementary School's state test result (55.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geneva Elementary School this school | 412 | 32.0% | 55.5% |
| Cedarhome Elementary School STANWOOD | 433 | 33.0% | 55.9% |
| Brownsville Elementary SILVERDALE | 422 | 32.5% | 67.1% |
| Chinook Elementary School VANCOUVER | 440 | 32.3% | N/A |
| Black Lake Elementary Olympia | 382 | 33.8% | 56.1% |
| Twin City Elementary STANWOOD | 440 | 34.1% | 57.5% |
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 Geneva Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Whatcom County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #333 of 936 | #5 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.1% | #602 of 1,103 ▼ 153 | #14 of 30 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #284 of 1,102 ▲ 34 | #3 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.9pp | #180 of 928 | #4 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 412 | #587 of 1,268 | #12 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #989 of 1,085 | #28 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.4% | #860 of 1,088 | #26 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.0% | #908 of 1,169 | #30 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #530 of 778 | #11 of 20 |
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
412
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 412 | 22.7 | 18.2:1 | 32% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 23.3 | 18.2:1 | 30% (128) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 26.2 | 16.5:1 | 28% (123) |
| 2020-21 | 403 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 24% (98) |
| 2017-18 | 465 | 24.6 | 18.9:1 | 25% (117) |
| 2015-16 | 451 | 24 | 18.8:1 | 28% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 601 | 28 | 21.5:1 | 21% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 504 | 25 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 17 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Geneva Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (465 to 412); teachers down 8% (24.6 to 22.7).
About Geneva Elementary School
The public elementary school Geneva Elementary School is located in Bellingham, Washington. It reported 412 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Geneva Elementary School is one of 25 schools in Bellingham School District, which enrolls 11,337 students in total.
White students are 73% of those enrolled at Geneva Elementary School. Other reported shares: 12% Hispanic and 10% multiracial. A diversity index of 44% means there is a 44% chance two randomly chosen students at Geneva Elementary School are from different groups.
The school has 22.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 18.2 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. Of all students at Geneva Elementary School, 32% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Whatcom County average 47%.
On the allk12 Grade, Geneva Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 52% of Washington public elementary schools.
Geneva Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (55.5%) and its predicted rate (58.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Whatcom County show that median household income comes to about $81,784, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Whatcom County counts 78 public schools with about 27,779 students.
Kulshan Middle School is about 1.4 miles from Geneva Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On average proficiency, Geneva Elementary School is 3rd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Locale: Suburb: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 403 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 412. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.5:1 in 2020-21, and 18.2:1 in 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Whatcom County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,503
Census ACS
Median income
$81,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
27,779 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellingham School District
- Squalicum High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Bellingham High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Sehome High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- Whatcom Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Shuksan Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Fairhaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 588 students
Other schools in Bellingham
- Squalicum High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Bellingham High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Sehome High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- Whatcom Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Shuksan Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Fairhaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 588 students
Other Geneva Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Geneva Elementary. Geneva Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- GENEVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGENEVA, FL · 486 students
Nearby schools
- Kulshan Middle School1.4 mi · 575
- Silver Beach Elementary School1.5 mi · 357
- Roosevelt Elementary School2.3 mi · 348
- Bellingham Re-Engagement Program2.6 mi · 110
- Squalicum High School2.7 mi · 1,273
- Visions (Seamar Youth Center)2.7 mi · 11
Frequently asked questions
About Geneva Elementary SchoolHow large is Geneva Elementary School?
Geneva Elementary School enrolls approximately 412 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Geneva Elementary School serve?
Geneva Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Geneva Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Geneva Elementary School is approximately 18.2:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Geneva Elementary School?
At Geneva Elementary School, the student body is approximately 73% White, 12% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Geneva Elementary School in?
Geneva Elementary School is part of Bellingham School District.
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