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If you had an hour of school board time for Kent Prairie Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
621
Elementary
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530024001190
Kent Prairie Elementary
8110 207th St NE, Arlington, WA 98223 · (360) 618-6260 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL621 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% of Washington public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+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
16.5:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
267 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 124 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (113).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
53.6%
WA avg 58.4% . -19.0pp since 2014
Math
54.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -8.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 19 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.6% | 54.5% |
| 2023-24 | 43.1% | 51.2% |
| 2022-23 | 55.7% | 53.9% |
| 2021-22 | 50.7% | 49.7% |
| 2018-19 | 64.8% | 63.2% |
| 2017-18 | 69.3% | 66.4% |
| 2016-17 | 72.4% | 66.3% |
| 2015-16 | 67.1% | 62.2% |
| 2014-15 | 72.6% | 63.1% |
% 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
53.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Kent Prairie Elementary
Kent Prairie Elementary's state test result (53.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent Prairie Elementary this school | 621 | 43.0% | 53.4% |
| Presidents Elementary Arlington | 578 | 44.8% | 46.7% |
| Peter G Schmidt Elementary Tumwater | 606 | 44.9% | 49.1% |
| Riverbend Elementary School Spokane Valley | 600 | 42.2% | 53.9% |
| Eagle Creek Elementary Arlington | 665 | 43.6% | 49.7% |
| Windsor Elementary SPOKANE | 549 | 44.1% | 55.5% |
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 Kent Prairie Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #381 of 936 | #56 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #351 of 1,103 ▲ 64 | #47 of 106 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.6% | #434 of 1,102 ▲ 211 | #57 of 106 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.9pp | #325 of 928 | #38 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 621 | #81 of 1,268 | #23 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #696 of 1,085 | #67 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #791 of 1,088 | #97 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.0% | #757 of 1,169 | #61 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #698 of 778 | #61 of 68 |
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
621
-34 (-5%) vs 2020
-23% since 2000-01, when it was 811
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 621 | 37.7 | 16.5:1 | 43% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 681 | 36.7 | 18.6:1 | 51% (350) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 40.7 | 14.6:1 | 45% (266) |
| 2020-21 | 655 | 40 | 16.4:1 | 40% (261) |
| 2017-18 | 644 | 37.1 | 17.4:1 | 37% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 632 | 34 | 18.6:1 | 43% (270) |
| 2010-11 | 534 | 26 | 20.5:1 | 15% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 811 | 42 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kent Prairie Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (644 to 621); teachers up 2% (37.1 to 37.7).
About Kent Prairie Elementary
Kent Prairie Elementary is a public elementary school in Arlington, Washington. Total enrollment is 621 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 63% higher.
Arlington School District is the district for Kent Prairie Elementary. It has 10 schools and 5,588 students.
More than half of enrollment at Kent Prairie Elementary is White: 68%. Next come 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 2% Asian. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Kent Prairie Elementary scores 49%.
There are 37.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Kent Prairie Elementary, giving a ratio of 16.5:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1. A total of 267 students, or 43%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Snohomish County is similar, at 41%.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Kent Prairie Elementary outscored 59%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Kent Prairie Elementary is 2.0 points above its prediction. Actual: 53.4%. Predicted: 51.4%.
The school's county is Snohomish County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $111,246, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Snohomish County's 227 public schools enroll about 118,688 students and include Kent Prairie Elementary.
Of the public schools around it, Kent Prairie Elementary is closest to Haller Middle School, about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Kent Prairie Elementary ranks 1st of 7 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
In 2020-21, Kent Prairie Elementary enrolled 655 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 621.
This page is set up for the Kent Prairie Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Arlington School District
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Eagle Creek ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Post Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Presidents ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Haller Middle SchoolMiddle · 576 students
- Pioneer ElementaryElementary · 501 students
Other schools in Arlington
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 834 students
- Eagle Creek ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Post Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Presidents ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Haller Middle SchoolMiddle · 576 students
Nearby schools
- Haller Middle School0.6 mi · 576
- Stillaguamish Valley Learning Center0.8 mi · 181
- Eagle Creek Elementary0.8 mi · 665
- Presidents Elementary0.8 mi · 578
- Post Middle School1.0 mi · 645
- Arlington High School1.2 mi · 1,650
Frequently asked questions
About Kent Prairie ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Kent Prairie Elementary?
Kent Prairie Elementary enrolls approximately 621 students in grades KG-05.
Is Kent Prairie Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kent Prairie Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kent Prairie Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kent Prairie Elementary is approximately 16.5:1 (38 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Kent Prairie Elementary?
Kent Prairie Elementary reports a student body of 68% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Kent Prairie Elementary in?
Kent Prairie Elementary is part of Arlington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.