Parkside Elementary

Located at 301 Central Avenue, in Tenino, Washington, Parkside Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school that teaches 316 students (grades pre-K through 2), part of Tenino School District.

Tenino School District runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,283 students. Parkside Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkside Elementary logs that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Thurston County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Parkside Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Thurston County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Thurston County indicate median household earnings sit near $96,563, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Thurston County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,412 students), of which Parkside Elementary is one.

Tenino Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Parkside Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 317 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 13% to 9%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.