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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530825001392
Linwood Elementary
906 W Weile Ave, Spokane, WA 99208 · (509) 354-3400 · Spokane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
364 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 60 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
29.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -18.9pp since 2014
Math
33.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -5.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.5% | 33.3% |
| 2023-24 | 32.7% | 33.6% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 28.0% |
| 2021-22 | 30.4% | 25.1% |
| 2018-19 | 36.9% | 37.1% |
| 2017-18 | 39.0% | 33.7% |
| 2016-17 | 42.4% | 35.8% |
| 2015-16 | 39.8% | 39.8% |
| 2014-15 | 48.4% | 39.1% |
% 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
33.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Linwood Elementary
Linwood Elementary's state test result (33.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood Elementary this school | 503 | 72.4% | 33.5% |
| Shiloh Hills Elementary SPOKANE | 465 | 70.8% | 42.5% |
| Opportunity Elementary Spokane Valley | 631 | 74.0% | 39.7% |
| Centennial Elementary Graham | 540 | 67.0% | 48.4% |
| East Port Orchard Elementary PORT ORCHARD | 423 | 66.7% | 39.2% |
| Lowell Elementary Everett | 531 | 69.3% | 50.2% |
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 Linwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #746 of 936 | #69 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #817 of 1,103 ▼ 36 | #66 of 83 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.5% | #950 of 1,102 ▼ 61 | #74 of 83 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.6pp | #341 of 928 | #36 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #280 of 1,268 | #12 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #167 of 1,085 | #33 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #368 of 1,088 | #6 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.4% | #219 of 1,169 | #22 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #713 of 778 | #61 of 67 |
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
503
+35 (+7%) vs 2020
+9% since 1990-91, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 503 | 35.6 | 14.1:1 | 72% (364) |
| 2023-24 | 488 | 41.3 | 11.8:1 | 75% (366) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 42.5 | 12.1:1 | 80% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 468 | 33 | 14.2:1 | 69% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 520 | 35 | 14.8:1 | 71% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 484 | 29 | 16.7:1 | 73% (353) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 21 | 20.8:1 | 64% (280) |
| 2000-01 | 449 | 22 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 460 | 21 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (520 to 503); teachers up 2% (35 to 35.6).
About Linwood Elementary
As a mid-sized elementary school, Linwood Elementary serves students in Spokane, Washington. It teaches 503 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Washington have about 380 students on average; enrollment here is 32% higher.
Linwood Elementary reports to Spokane School District, which has 62 schools and 28,853 students.
More than half of the students at Linwood Elementary are White (53%). Beyond that, enrollment is 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 8% Black, and 5% Pacific Islander. In Spokane County overall, about 83% of residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
The school has 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.1 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. The school reported 72% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Spokane County is 52%.
The model predicts 31.6% for a school in Washington with Linwood Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Linwood Elementary posts 33.5%.
In Spokane County, home to about 549,056 people, median household income comes to about $78,582, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Spokane County's 187 public schools enroll about 76,588 students and include Linwood Elementary.
Evergreen Elementary School is the nearest public school to Linwood Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Linwood Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 40.1%, higher than Linwood Elementary's 33.5%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 7% rise, from 468 to 503.
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Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spokane School District
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other schools in Spokane
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Other Linwood Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Linwood Elementary. Linwood Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 8.
- Linwood ElementaryVisalia, CA · 537 students
- Linwood ElementaryWichita, KS · 452 students
- Linwood ElementaryWYOMING, MN · 400 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolMilwaukie, OR · 259 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolLinwood, PA · 249 students
Nearby schools
- Evergreen Elementary School0.9 mi · 433
- Ridgeview Elementary1.1 mi · 301
- Madison Elementary1.1 mi · 250
- Shiloh Hills Elementary1.3 mi · 465
- Lidgerwood Elementary1.3 mi · 278
- Salk Middle School1.3 mi · 658
Frequently asked questions
About Linwood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Linwood Elementary?
Linwood Elementary enrolls approximately 503 students in grades PK-05.
Is Linwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Linwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Linwood Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Linwood Elementary is approximately 14.1:1 (36 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Linwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Linwood Elementary are roughly 53% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Linwood Elementary in?
Linwood Elementary is part of Spokane School District.
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