P C Jantz Elementary
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Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About P C Jantz Elementary
P C Jantz Elementary, a minimally staffed elementary campus in ODESSA, Washington, run under Odessa School District, serves 121 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 68% leaner than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 380 students.
Within Odessa School District, which oversees 2 schools and 224 students, P C Jantz Elementary is one campus in the system.
On demographics, P C Jantz Elementary reports that nearly all students (85%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
On the resource side, P C Jantz Elementary reports 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting P C Jantz Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), P C Jantz Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 46.1%.
Around the school, census data for Lincoln County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,512 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. P C Jantz Elementary is one of 19 public schools in Lincoln County (combined enrollment of about 2,233 students).
Odessa High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), P C Jantz Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.9%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at P C Jantz Elementary has fell 5%, going from 127 students in 2018 to 121 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 14% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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