Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530513000774
Maltby Elementary
9700 212th St. SE, Snohomish, WA 98296 · (360) 804-3500 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% 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.
- CBeats 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
14.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
86 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 23% larger than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
65.8%
WA avg 58.4% . +9.2pp since 2014
Math
55.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -10.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.8% | 55.7% |
| 2023-24 | 61.8% | 56.9% |
| 2022-23 | 64.3% | 60.0% |
| 2021-22 | 61.3% | 51.9% |
| 2018-19 | 60.9% | 51.9% |
| 2017-18 | 60.3% | 52.6% |
| 2016-17 | 61.4% | 56.6% |
| 2015-16 | 50.5% | 58.2% |
| 2014-15 | 56.5% | 65.8% |
% 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
60.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Maltby Elementary
Maltby Elementary's state test result (60.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maltby Elementary this school | 334 | 25.7% | 60.8% |
| Silver Beach Elementary School Bellingham | 357 | 23.8% | 68.9% |
| Discovery Elementary School Gig Harbor | 380 | 25.3% | 73.3% |
| Wade King Elementary School Bellingham | 297 | 21.9% | 53.6% |
| Big Lake Elementary School Mount Vernon | 288 | 30.2% | 52.6% |
| Midway Elementary COLBERT | 418 | 27.5% | 70.2% |
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 Maltby Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #244 of 936 | #36 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #325 of 1,103 ▼ 20 | #43 of 106 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #216 of 1,102 ▲ 60 | #26 of 106 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.2pp | #304 of 928 | #36 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #851 of 1,268 | #103 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #239 of 1,085 | #23 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.4% | #950 of 1,088 | #108 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.7% | #980 of 1,169 | #86 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #168 of 778 | #5 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
334
-114 (-25%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 603
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 17.2:1
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 | 334 | 23 | 14.5:1 | 26% (86) |
| 2023-24 | 316 | 20.5 | 15.4:1 | 25% (79) |
| 2022-23 | 322 | 20.6 | 15.7:1 | 25% (81) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 26 | 17.2:1 | 19% (86) |
| 2017-18 | 454 | 27.2 | 16.7:1 | 21% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 408 | 21 | 19.4:1 | 25% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | 19 | 20.5:1 | 20% (79) |
| 2000-01 | 462 | 22 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 603 | 29 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maltby Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (454 to 334); teachers down 16% (27.2 to 23).
About Maltby Elementary
Maltby Elementary is an elementary school located in Snohomish, Washington, in Snohomish County. It serves 334 students in kindergarten through 5.
Maltby Elementary is one school in Monroe School District, a system of 12 schools with 5,874 students.
At Maltby Elementary, White students make up 77% of the student body. The school is also 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is higher than the 64% White share among all Snohomish County residents. Maltby Elementary's diversity index is 38%, against a US figure of 70%.
Maltby Elementary employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 14.5:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Maltby Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 26%. That rate is below the 41% average among public schools in Snohomish County.
Maltby Elementary is graded B by allk12, scoring above 59% of Washington public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Maltby Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 60.8%, compared with a predicted 62.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Snohomish County, the median household income is $111,246, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. In all, Snohomish County has 227 public schools and roughly 118,688 students.
The shortest distance from Maltby Elementary to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Hidden River Middle School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Maltby Elementary is 7th among 8 schools close by.
The NCES locale for Maltby Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 334 students in 2024-25, 114 fewer than the 448 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.5:1.
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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 Monroe School District
- Monroe High SchoolHigh · 1,515 students
- Sky Valley Education CenterCombined · 985 students
- Park Place Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Frank Wagner ElementaryElementary · 545 students
- Salem Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 516 students
- Chain Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
Other schools in Snohomish
- Glacier Peak High SchoolHigh · 1,642 students
- Snohomish High SchoolHigh · 1,496 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Dutch Hill ElementaryElementary · 694 students
- Little Cedars Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
- Valley View Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
Nearby schools
- Hidden River Middle School0.4 mi · 313
- Cathcart Elementary1.9 mi · 497
- Leota Middle School2.6 mi · 858
- Wellington Elementary2.6 mi · 380
- Kokanee Elementary3.1 mi · 651
- Ruby Bridges Elementary3.1 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About Maltby ElementaryHow many students attend Maltby Elementary?
Maltby Elementary enrolls approximately 334 students in grades KG-05.
Is Maltby Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Maltby Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Maltby Elementary have?
Maltby Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Maltby Elementary?
At Maltby Elementary, the student body is approximately 77% White, 14% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Maltby Elementary public or private?
Maltby Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Monroe School District.
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