Mountain View Elementary

Located at "534 E. ""K"" St.", in Shelton, Washington, Mountain View Elementary is a sizable elementary school that caters to 671 students (grades pre-K through 4), part of Shelton School District. Compared to the state average of about 380 students per school, that is 77% above typical.

Within Shelton School District, which oversees 10 schools and 4,517 students, Mountain View Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Mountain View Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 46% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Mason County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountain View Elementary lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at Mountain View Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Mason County put the typical household earns roughly $83,270 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Mountain View Elementary is one of 26 public schools in Mason County (combined enrollment of about 8,539 students).

The closest other public school is Olympic Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain View Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain View Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 26.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 683 students in 2018 compared to 671 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 23% to 46% over that span.

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