Enrollment
199
Elementary
DISTRICT 196 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPOKANE)·NCES 530969001644
Orchard Center Elementary
7519 E BUCKEYE, SPOKANE, WA 99212 · (509) 922-5473 · Spokane County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL199 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
140 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 47 | 24% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 28 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 26% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 16% |
This year's 1st grade class (47) is 47% larger than its 5th grade class (32).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
Orchard Center Elementary→Centennial Middle School
Based on grade levels within West Valley School District (Spokane). Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
50.5%
WA avg 58.4% . +14.3pp since 2014
Math
46.0%
WA avg 51.2% . +6.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.5% | 46.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.3% | 41.5% |
| 2022-23 | 35.9% | 50.8% |
| 2021-22 | 45.6% | 39.0% |
| 2018-19 | 40.1% | 34.0% |
| 2017-18 | 34.4% | 32.5% |
| 2016-17 | 29.3% | 27.6% |
| 2015-16 | 40.6% | 34.9% |
| 2014-15 | 36.2% | 39.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
44.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 33% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 11 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Orchard Center Elementary
Orchard Center Elementary's state test result (44.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orchard Center Elementary this school | 199 | 70.4% | 44.3% |
| Ocean Park Elementary OCEAN PARK | 212 | 67.9% | 38.5% |
| Ocean Shores Elementary Ocean Shores | 254 | 70.5% | 35.9% |
| Seth Woodard Elementary SPOKANE | 262 | 67.2% | 45.9% |
| Kettle Falls Elementary School Kettle Falls | 242 | 64.9% | 27.4% |
| Ness Elementary SPOKANE | 243 | 75.3% | 56.0% |
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 Orchard Center Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #535 of 936 | #52 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #510 of 1,103 ▲ 95 | #43 of 83 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #501 of 1,102 ▲ 164 | #41 of 83 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.9pp | #216 of 928 | #27 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 199 | #1,092 of 1,268 | #84 of 92 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.4% | #256 of 1,169 | #26 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.1% | #318 of 778 | #33 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
199
-27 (-12%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 297
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 199 | 16.5 | 12.1:1 | 70% (140) |
| 2023-24 | 194 | 15.3 | 12.7:1 | 71% (138) |
| 2022-23 | 210 | 15.5 | 13.6:1 | 83% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 226 | 17 | 13.3:1 | 55% (124) |
| 2017-18 | 246 | 19.4 | 12.7:1 | 63% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 316 | 21 | 15.1:1 | 68% (216) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 16 | 19.3:1 | 61% (187) |
| 2000-01 | 256 | 15 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 297 | 13 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orchard Center Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (246 to 199); teachers down 15% (19.4 to 16.5).
About Orchard Center Elementary
Among the schools in SPOKANE, Washington, is Orchard Center Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school. Total enrollment is 199 students, and the grades served are 1 through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Washington enroll about 380 students on average.
The district, West Valley School District (Spokane), operates 13 schools serving 3,475 students.
At Orchard Center Elementary, 75% of students are White. The rest of enrollment is 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Orchard Center Elementary scores 41%.
Staffing at Orchard Center Elementary comes to 16.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 12.1:1. Elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1, 5.2 more students per teacher than here. Orchard Center Elementary counts 70% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Spokane County report 52%.
Schools in Washington with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 33.0%. Orchard Center Elementary posts 44.3%, 11.3 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
In Spokane County, median household income comes to about $78,582, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Spokane County counts 187 public schools with about 76,588 students.
The closest school to Orchard Center Elementary is West Valley Early Learning Center, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Orchard Center Elementary. Its average proficiency rate of 44.3% is above the 39.3% average for nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment fell 12% over 4 years, reaching 199 in 2024-25. The ratio was 13.3:1 in 2020-21 and 12.1:1 in 2024-25.
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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 West Valley School District (Spokane)
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 836 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 536 students
- Pasadena Park ElementaryElementary · 362 students
- Dishman Hills High SchoolHigh · 296 students
- Seth Woodard ElementaryElementary · 262 students
- Ness ElementaryElementary · 243 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
- West Valley Early Learning Center0.2 mi · 91
- West Valley High School0.4 mi · 836
- Millwood Kindergarten Center0.7 mi · 178
- West Valley Virtual Learning Center0.8 mi · 40
- Seth Woodard Elementary0.8 mi · 262
- Open Doors re-engagement0.9 mi · 3
Frequently asked questions
About Orchard Center ElementaryHow large is Orchard Center Elementary?
Orchard Center Elementary enrolls approximately 199 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Orchard Center Elementary serve?
Orchard Center Elementary serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Orchard Center Elementary have?
Orchard Center Elementary employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Orchard Center Elementary?
Student demographics at Orchard Center Elementary are roughly 75% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Orchard Center Elementary?
Orchard Center Elementary is overseen by West Valley School District (Spokane) in Spokane County.
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