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Enrollment
579
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530657000966
Mark Twain Elementary
1801 N ROAD 40, PASCO, WA 99301 · (509) 543-6794 · Franklin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL579 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
378 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 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
39%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
28.5%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.8pp since 2014
Math
25.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -10.7pp 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 26 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.5% | 25.7% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 26.0% |
| 2022-23 | 32.3% | 26.9% |
| 2021-22 | 32.6% | 29.6% |
| 2018-19 | 37.9% | 32.5% |
| 2017-18 | 37.6% | 34.0% |
| 2016-17 | 34.7% | 29.8% |
| 2015-16 | 37.0% | 34.6% |
| 2014-15 | 32.3% | 36.4% |
% 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
28.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Mark Twain Elementary
Mark Twain Elementary's state test result (28.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain Elementary this school | 579 | 65.3% | 28.1% |
| Moxee Elementary Moxee | 515 | 64.9% | 54.4% |
| Madison Elementary Mount Vernon | 498 | 68.3% | 30.4% |
| Fuerza Elementary Kennewick | 629 | 66.8% | N/A |
| Edison Elementary School WALLA WALLA | 464 | 72.2% | 38.9% |
| Maya Angelou Elementary Pasco | 579 | 59.9% | 38.6% |
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 Mark Twain Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.1% | #828 of 936 | #12 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #953 of 1,103 ▼ 16 | #12 of 20 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #967 of 1,102 ▼ 39 | #13 of 20 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #180 of 928 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 579 | #131 of 1,268 | #3 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #569 of 1,085 | #15 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.1% | #939 of 1,088 | #11 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.3% | #348 of 1,169 | #13 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.3% | #224 of 778 | #14 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
579
+14 (+2%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 579 | 36.4 | 15.9:1 | 65% (378) |
| 2023-24 | 550 | 35.5 | 15.5:1 | 71% (393) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 33 | 17.5:1 | 73% (422) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 67% (379) |
| 2017-18 | 755 | 44.2 | 17.1:1 | 69% (521) |
| 2015-16 | 774 | 41 | 18.9:1 | 63% (491) |
| 2010-11 | 673 | 31 | 21.7:1 | 66% (444) |
| 2000-01 | 541 | 27 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 28 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mark Twain Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (755 to 579); teachers down 18% (44.2 to 36.4).
About Mark Twain Elementary
Mark Twain Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school for students in PASCO, Washington. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 579 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students.
Mark Twain Elementary is one school in Pasco School District, a system of 28 schools with 18,913 students.
By race and ethnicity, Mark Twain Elementary is 75% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 21% White and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Franklin County's population at about 55%. The chance that two students picked at random at Mark Twain Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 39%.
Mark Twain Elementary counts 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 15.9 students for each one. Among elementary schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 17.3:1. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 36.4% at Mark Twain Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 28.1%.
Federal survey data for Franklin County show that median household income is about $86,714, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. A total of 43 public schools operate in Franklin County, serving about 21,403 students.
Nearby, UGRAD ESD123 RE-ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM is about 0.2 miles away. Mark Twain Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 17.8% on proficiency, and Mark Twain Elementary is above that at 28.1%.
Mark Twain Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 565 to 579.
Conversations here can range across sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Other Mark Twain Elementary schools
30 other US public schools in 13 states are named Mark Twain Elementary. Mark Twain Elementary is the 4th largest of the 31.
- Mark Twain ElementaryKirkland, WA · 550 students
- Mark Twain Elementary SchoolFEDERAL WAY, WA · 531 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryRiverside, CA · 1,033 students
- Mark Twain Elementary SchoolALVIN, TX · 634 students
- Mark Twain ElementaryLawndale, CA · 585 students
Nearby schools
- UGRAD ESD123 RE-ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM0.2 mi · 353
- Stevens Middle School1.1 mi · 956
- Robert Frost Elementary1.1 mi · 459
- Rowena Chess Elementary1.2 mi · 436
- New Horizons High School1.4 mi · 344
- Emerson Elementary1.6 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About Mark Twain ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Mark Twain Elementary?
Mark Twain Elementary enrolls approximately 579 students in grades PK-05.
Is Mark Twain Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mark Twain Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Mark Twain Elementary have?
Mark Twain Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
How diverse is Mark Twain Elementary?
Mark Twain Elementary reports a student body of 21% White, 75% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Mark Twain Elementary?
Mark Twain Elementary is overseen by Pasco School District in Franklin County.
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