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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Michael T Simmons Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
457
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TUMWATER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530910001542
Michael T Simmons Elementary
1205 2nd Avenue SW, Tumwater, WA 98512 · (360) 709-7100 · Thurston County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL457 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+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
13.1:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
199 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 27 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 39% smaller than its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
55%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
54.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -7.0pp since 2014
Math
57.7%
WA avg 51.2% . +8.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.7% | 57.7% |
| 2023-24 | 55.8% | 57.1% |
| 2022-23 | 55.6% | 55.0% |
| 2021-22 | 58.0% | 52.8% |
| 2018-19 | 69.2% | 67.9% |
| 2017-18 | 70.2% | 66.1% |
| 2016-17 | 61.0% | 55.0% |
| 2015-16 | 61.4% | 49.6% |
| 2014-15 | 61.7% | 49.4% |
% 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
58.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 Michael T Simmons Elementary
Michael T Simmons Elementary's state test result (58.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael T Simmons Elementary this school | 457 | 43.5% | 58.9% |
| Whittier Elementary Everett | 422 | 46.2% | 73.5% |
| Happy Valley Elementary School Bellingham | 455 | 45.5% | 50.3% |
| Parkview Elementary School Bellingham | 422 | 44.3% | 55.0% |
| Sunnyslope Elementary School PORT ORCHARD | 503 | 41.7% | 54.7% |
| Liberty Ridge Elementary Sumner | 515 | 46.0% | 62.9% |
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 Michael T Simmons Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Thurston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #274 of 936 | #6 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #299 of 1,103 ▲ 2 | #5 of 39 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.7% | #412 of 1,102 ▼ 31 | #18 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #513 of 928 | #22 of 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 457 | #423 of 1,268 | #19 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #72 of 1,085 | #2 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.5% | #633 of 1,088 | #29 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.5% | #746 of 1,169 | #24 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.6% | #67 of 778 | #1 of 27 |
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
457
-47 (-9%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 493
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 457 | 34.9 | 13.1:1 | 44% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 442 | 30.5 | 14.5:1 | 39% (174) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 33 | 14.5:1 | 40% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 504 | 33 | 15.3:1 | 34% (173) |
| 2017-18 | 699 | 36.2 | 19.3:1 | 34% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 706 | 40 | 17.6:1 | 41% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 709 | 38 | 18.7:1 | 29% (204) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 27 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 493 | 24 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Michael T Simmons Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (699 to 457); teachers down 4% (36.2 to 34.9).
About Michael T Simmons Elementary
Michael T Simmons Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Tumwater, Washington. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 457 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 20% bigger than that mark.
Across its 14 schools, Tumwater School District enrolls 6,350 students. Michael T Simmons Elementary is one of those schools.
White students are 64% of those enrolled at Michael T Simmons Elementary. Beyond that, enrollment is 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian, and 3% Black. In Thurston County overall, about 72% of residents are White. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at Michael T Simmons Elementary are from different groups.
Michael T Simmons Elementary reported 34.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 4.2 more students per teacher than here. There are 199 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 44% of enrollment. The figure for public schools in Thurston County is close, at 43%.
Michael T Simmons Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 76% of Washington public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Michael T Simmons Elementary is +7.9 points: 58.9% actual, 51.0% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Thurston County, median household income comes to about $96,563, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 86, with about 44,412 students.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, ESD 113 Consortium Reengagement Program, is the closest to Michael T Simmons Elementary. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Michael T Simmons Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school shrank from 504 students in 2020-21 to 457 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 15.3:1 to 13.1:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Michael T Simmons Elementary. You can also rate the school on this page.
Thurston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
299,067
Census ACS
Median income
$96,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
44,412 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tumwater School District
- Tumwater High SchoolHigh · 1,117 students
- George Bush Middle SchoolMiddle · 762 students
- A G West Black Hills High SchoolHigh · 753 students
- Tumwater Middle SchoolMiddle · 665 students
- Peter G Schmidt ElementaryElementary · 606 students
- East Olympia ElementaryElementary · 579 students
Other schools in Tumwater
- Tumwater High SchoolHigh · 1,117 students
- George Bush Middle SchoolMiddle · 762 students
- A G West Black Hills High SchoolHigh · 753 students
- Tumwater Middle SchoolMiddle · 665 students
- Peter G Schmidt ElementaryElementary · 606 students
- Washington Connections Academy - Mary M. KnightElementary · 600 students
Nearby schools
- ESD 113 Consortium Reengagement Program0.8 mi · 344
- Tumwater Hill Elementary0.9 mi · 400
- Tumwater Middle School1.1 mi · 665
- Peter G Schmidt Elementary1.2 mi · 606
- Tumwater High School1.4 mi · 1,117
- Olympia High School1.6 mi · 1,901
Frequently asked questions
About Michael T Simmons ElementaryHow many students attend Michael T Simmons Elementary?
Michael T Simmons Elementary enrolls approximately 457 students in grades PK-05.
Is Michael T Simmons Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Michael T Simmons Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Michael T Simmons Elementary?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Michael T Simmons Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Michael T Simmons Elementary?
Student demographics at Michael T Simmons Elementary are roughly 64% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Michael T Simmons Elementary public or private?
Michael T Simmons Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tumwater School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.