Maltby Elementary

Located at 9700 212th St. SE, in Snohomish, Washington, Maltby Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that works with 334 students (grades K through 5), run under Monroe School District.

Monroe School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 5,874 students. Maltby Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Maltby Elementary records that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Snohomish County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Maltby Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) shows that median household earnings sit near $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Maltby Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Hidden River Middle School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maltby Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 67.5%.

Maltby Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maltby Elementary has contracted 26%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 334 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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