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Which teacher or staff member at Orting Primary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
567
Elementary
DISTRICT 645 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORTING SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530645000952
Orting Elementary School
316 Washington Avenue North, Orting, WA 98360 · (360) 893-2248 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL567 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
221 students
DISTRICT 39% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 109 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
53%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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Orting School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
42.7%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.0pp since 2016
Math
36.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.1pp since 2016
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 2016, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.7% | 36.1% |
| 2023-24 | 39.4% | 38.7% |
| 2022-23 | 35.5% | 37.6% |
| 2021-22 | 53.4% | 59.2% |
| 2018-19 | 41.3% | 48.8% |
| 2017-18 | 52.5% | 45.3% |
| 2016-17 | 42.7% | 38.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Orting Elementary School
Orting Elementary School's state test result (39.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orting Elementary School this school | 567 | 39.0% | 39.6% |
| Mt. Pilchuck Elementary School Lake Stevens | 554 | 37.2% | 60.7% |
| Pioneer Elementary Arlington | 501 | 39.3% | 43.5% |
| East Olympia Elementary Olympia | 579 | 35.6% | 58.2% |
| Maple Lawn Elementary Sumner | 628 | 36.8% | 70.6% |
| Sunnyslope Elementary School PORT ORCHARD | 503 | 41.7% | 54.7% |
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 Orting Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #637 of 936 | #102 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.1% | #752 of 1,103 ▼ 90 | #106 of 142 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #677 of 1,102 ▲ 69 | #93 of 142 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -16.9pp | #5 of 928 | #1 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 567 | #146 of 1,268 | #23 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #792 of 1,085 | #98 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.8% | #702 of 1,088 | #124 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.0% | #813 of 1,169 | #110 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #706 of 778 | #79 of 91 |
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
567
+183 (+48%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 567 | 33.6 | 16.9:1 | 39% (221) |
| 2023-24 | 569 | 32 | 17.8:1 | 40% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 570 | 33 | 17.3:1 | 34% (191) |
| 2020-21 | 384 | 31 | 12.4:1 | 27% (105) |
| 2017-18 | 587 | 29 | 20.2:1 | 34% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 452 | 22 | 20.6:1 | 38% (172) |
| 2010-11 | 521 | 24 | 21.7:1 | 31% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 21 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 740 | 35 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Orting Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (587 to 567); teachers up 16% (29 to 33.6).
About Orting Elementary School
Orting Elementary School serves students in Orting, Washington, as a mid-sized elementary school. Its enrollment is 567 students, spread over kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students, which makes this school 49% above average.
Orting Elementary School reports to Orting School District, which has 4 schools and 2,809 students.
About 66% of the student body at Orting Elementary School is White. Other groups make up 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 3% Black. Pierce County residents are about 64% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 53% means there is a 53% chance two randomly chosen students at Orting Elementary School are from different groups.
Its ratio of 16.9:1 is based on 33.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. In all, 39% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Pierce County report 50%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Orting Elementary School ranks in the bottom 10% of Washington schools. It scores 39.6%; the prediction is 54.0%.
The county, Pierce County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $99,564 a year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Orting Elementary School, Pierce County has 287 public schools.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Orting High School, is the closest to Orting Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 50.3% proficiency; Orting Elementary School posts 39.6%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21 the school reported 384 students, and in 2024-25 it reported 567. Grade changes, mergers, or boundary shifts can explain gaps this large. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.4:1 to 16.9:1.
This page is set up for the Orting Elementary School community to discuss fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Orting School District
- Orting High SchoolHigh · 876 students
- Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 723 students
- Orting Middle SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Orting Special EducationElementary
- Orting Elementary Online AcademyCombined
- Orting Secondary Online AcademyCombined
Other schools in Orting
- Orting High SchoolHigh · 876 students
- Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 723 students
- Orting Middle SchoolMiddle · 643 students
- Orting Special EducationElementary
- Orting Elementary Online AcademyCombined
- Orting Secondary Online AcademyCombined
Nearby schools
- Orting High School0.1 mi · 876
- Orting Middle School0.5 mi · 643
- Ptarmigan Ridge Elementary School0.6 mi · 723
- Tehaleh Heights Elementary School1.9 mi · 627
- G W Edgerton Elementary2.5 mi · 753
- Donald Eismann Elementary2.5 mi · 648
Frequently asked questions
About Orting Elementary SchoolHow large is Orting Elementary School?
Orting Elementary School enrolls approximately 567 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Orting Elementary School serve?
Orting Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Orting Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Orting Elementary School is approximately 16.9:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Orting Elementary School?
Orting Elementary School reports a student body of 66% White, 17% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Orting Elementary School?
Orting Elementary School is overseen by Orting School District in Pierce County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.