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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPOKANE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530825001398
Mullan Road Elementary
2616 E 63Rd Ave, Spokane, WA 99223 · (509) 354-3800 · Spokane County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
169 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 9 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
43%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Mullan Road Elementary→Alternative Tamarack School
Based on grade levels within Spokane School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
68.2%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.4pp since 2014
Math
63.2%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.2% | 63.2% |
| 2023-24 | 64.3% | 62.9% |
| 2022-23 | 64.8% | 57.0% |
| 2021-22 | 62.3% | 53.3% |
| 2018-19 | 71.3% | 67.8% |
| 2017-18 | 74.7% | 69.4% |
| 2016-17 | 71.5% | 73.2% |
| 2015-16 | 72.1% | 68.3% |
| 2014-15 | 67.8% | 65.9% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Mullan Road Elementary
Mullan Road Elementary's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mullan Road Elementary this school | 477 | 35.4% | 65.3% |
| Meadow Ridge Elementary MEAD | 453 | 35.1% | 68.6% |
| Island View Elementary Anacortes | 453 | 34.0% | 62.2% |
| Cedarhome Elementary School STANWOOD | 433 | 33.0% | 55.9% |
| Twin City Elementary STANWOOD | 440 | 34.1% | 57.5% |
| Moran Prairie Elementary Spokane | 462 | 36.1% | 67.9% |
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 Mullan Road Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #189 of 936 | #12 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #218 of 1,103 ▼ 5 | #13 of 83 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #180 of 1,102 ▲ 53 | #10 of 83 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.9pp | #137 of 928 | #23 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #356 of 1,268 | #15 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #372 of 1,085 | #49 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #877 of 1,088 | #48 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.4% | #862 of 1,169 | #69 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #126 of 778 | #14 of 67 |
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
477
-146 (-23%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 477 | 31.5 | 15.1:1 | 35% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 485 | 34.9 | 13.9:1 | 40% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 617 | 42.2 | 14.6:1 | 41% (255) |
| 2020-21 | 623 | 37 | 16.8:1 | 34% (209) |
| 2017-18 | 678 | 37.8 | 17.9:1 | 29% (199) |
| 2015-16 | 617 | 32 | 19.3:1 | 27% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 560 | 23 | 24.4:1 | 14% (78) |
| 2000-01 | 446 | 21 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 485 | 20 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mullan Road Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (678 to 477); teachers down 17% (37.8 to 31.5).
About Mullan Road Elementary
Mullan Road Elementary sits in Spokane, Washington, and is classified as an elementary school. The student body numbers 477 students, from pre-K through 6. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Spokane School District runs Mullan Road Elementary along with 61 other schools, enrolling 28,853 students in total.
At 74%, White students outnumber all other groups at Mullan Road Elementary combined. After that, the student body is 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, and 2% Asian. Among all residents of Spokane County, the White share is about 83%. Mullan Road Elementary has a diversity index of 43%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Mullan Road Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.1:1. Among elementary schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 17.3:1. The lunch program counts 35% of students at Mullan Road Elementary as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Spokane County averages 52%, higher than here.
Mullan Road Elementary's average proficiency rate on state tests of 65.3% is 8.9 points above the 56.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census estimates describe Spokane County this way: median household income is about $78,582, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Federal data list 187 public schools in Spokane County, with a combined enrollment of about 76,588.
Nearest public school: Carla Peperzak Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. The five-mile area around Mullan Road Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Mullan Road Elementary at 2nd of 9.
Locale data from NCES put Mullan Road Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
The number of students dropped from 623 to 477 over 4 years. By 2024-25, the school had 15.1 students per teacher, compared with 16.8 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spokane School District
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
- Sacajawea Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other schools in Spokane
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Nearby schools
- Carla Peperzak Middle School0.2 mi · 754
- Moran Prairie Elementary1.2 mi · 462
- Hamblen Elementary1.6 mi · 508
- Ferris High School1.7 mi · 1,644
- Adams Elementary1.8 mi · 312
- Jefferson Elementary2.2 mi · 359
Frequently asked questions
About Mullan Road ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Mullan Road Elementary?
Mullan Road Elementary enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Mullan Road Elementary serve?
Mullan Road Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mullan Road Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mullan Road Elementary is approximately 15.1:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Mullan Road Elementary?
Student demographics at Mullan Road Elementary are roughly 74% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Mullan Road Elementary in?
Mullan Road Elementary is part of Spokane School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.