Meadowdale Elementary

Located at 6505 168TH ST SW, in LYNNWOOD, Washington, Meadowdale Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that caters to 430 students (grades K through 6), operated by Edmonds School District.

Meadowdale Elementary is one of 37 schools operated by Edmonds School District, a district that serves 20,955 students overall.

Demographically, Meadowdale Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Snohomish County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Meadowdale Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 49% of students at Meadowdale Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadowdale Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 48.3%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Snohomish County shows the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Snohomish County's 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), Meadowdale Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Meadowdale Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Meadowdale Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 430 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 25% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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