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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at James McGee Elementary?
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Enrollment
499
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530657001860
James McGee Elementary
4601 N HORIZON DRIVE, PASCO, WA 99301 · (509) 547-6583 · Franklin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL499 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Washington public elementary schools
- CTest 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.
- C+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
15.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
281 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
42.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.1pp since 2014
Math
31.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.5% | 31.8% |
| 2023-24 | 42.7% | 33.3% |
| 2022-23 | 44.6% | 31.9% |
| 2021-22 | 44.1% | 31.3% |
| 2018-19 | 48.3% | 39.8% |
| 2017-18 | 47.1% | 43.8% |
| 2016-17 | 41.9% | 41.4% |
| 2015-16 | 45.6% | 44.1% |
| 2014-15 | 42.4% | 39.6% |
% 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
37.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 James McGee Elementary
James McGee Elementary's state test result (37.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| James McGee Elementary this school | 499 | 56.3% | 37.7% |
| Barbara McClintock STEM Elementary Pasco | 570 | 53.9% | 34.4% |
| Maya Angelou Elementary Pasco | 579 | 59.9% | 38.6% |
| Morgen Owings Elementary School Chelan | 472 | 58.7% | N/A |
| Moxee Elementary Moxee | 515 | 64.9% | 54.4% |
| Columbia River Elementary Pasco | 618 | 48.4% | 33.2% |
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 James McGee Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #670 of 936 | #5 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #842 of 1,103 ▼ 48 | #8 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #682 of 1,102 ▼ 27 | #4 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #352 of 928 | #5 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #291 of 1,268 | #8 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #452 of 1,085 | #13 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.9% | #795 of 1,088 | #8 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.3% | #517 of 1,169 | #16 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.8% | #195 of 778 | #13 of 17 |
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
499
+87 (+21%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 511
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 499 | 32.3 | 15.4:1 | 56% (281) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 31.9 | 14.4:1 | 63% (290) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 24.5 | 18.9:1 | 52% (240) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 26 | 15.8:1 | 49% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 664 | 40 | 16.6:1 | 56% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 613 | 35 | 17.5:1 | 49% (301) |
| 2010-11 | 852 | 37 | 23.0:1 | 36% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 550 | 29 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 511 | 26 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for James McGee Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (664 to 499); teachers down 19% (40 to 32.3).
About James McGee Elementary
James McGee Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in PASCO, Washington, administered by Pasco School District. The school enrolls 499 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Besides James McGee Elementary, Pasco School District runs 27 other schools. The district enrolls 18,913 students.
At James McGee Elementary, Hispanic students make up 66% of the student body. The remaining shares are 28% White and 4% multiracial. Franklin County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 49% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 32.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at James McGee Elementary was 15.4:1. This ratio sits 1.9 below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 56%. The average for public schools in Franklin County is 70%.
allk12 grades James McGee Elementary a C-. The grade compares the school only with Washington public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, James McGee Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 37.7%; the prediction is 42.4%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Franklin County, the median household income is $86,714, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. James McGee Elementary is one of 43 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, Rosalind Franklin STEM Elementary, is about 1.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. James McGee Elementary places 2nd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Federal data show a 21% enrollment gain, from 412 in 2020-21 to 499 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,902
Census ACS
Median income
$86,714
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
21,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pasco School District
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Other schools in PASCO
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Nearby schools
- Rosalind Franklin STEM Elementary1.3 mi · 543
- New Horizons High School1.5 mi · 344
- Barbara McClintock STEM Elementary1.5 mi · 570
- Mark Twain Elementary1.7 mi · 579
- Robert Frost Elementary1.8 mi · 459
- UGRAD ESD123 RE-ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM1.9 mi · 353
Frequently asked questions
About James McGee ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at James McGee Elementary?
James McGee Elementary enrolls approximately 499 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does James McGee Elementary serve?
James McGee Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at James McGee Elementary?
Approximately 15.4:1 students per teacher at James McGee Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at James McGee Elementary?
At James McGee Elementary, the student body is approximately 28% White, 66% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees James McGee Elementary?
James McGee Elementary is overseen by Pasco School District in Franklin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.