Enrollment
422
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLINGHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530042000110
Parkview Elementary School
3030 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225 · (360) 676-6433 · Whatcom County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL422 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
187 students
DISTRICT 44% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 88 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 54% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
52.9%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.7pp since 2014
Math
45.1%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 15 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.9% | 45.1% |
| 2023-24 | 57.5% | 49.7% |
| 2022-23 | 61.7% | 56.6% |
| 2021-22 | 58.0% | 56.4% |
| 2018-19 | 59.2% | 48.8% |
| 2017-18 | 53.9% | 50.3% |
| 2016-17 | 59.9% | 54.8% |
| 2015-16 | 60.1% | 55.7% |
| 2014-15 | 65.5% | 59.7% |
% 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
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Parkview Elementary School
Parkview Elementary School's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkview Elementary School this school | 422 | 44.3% | 55.0% |
| Blaine Primary School BLAINE | 419 | 45.8% | N/A |
| Whittier Elementary Everett | 422 | 46.2% | 73.5% |
| Michael T Simmons Elementary Tumwater | 457 | 43.5% | 58.9% |
| Happy Valley Elementary School Bellingham | 455 | 45.5% | 50.3% |
| Hidden Creek Elementary School PORT ORCHARD | 439 | 48.1% | 42.5% |
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 Parkview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Whatcom County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #349 of 936 | #6 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.1% | #532 of 1,103 ▼ 87 | #11 of 30 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.9% | #448 of 1,102 ▼ 105 | #7 of 30 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.2pp | #58 of 928 | #2 of 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 422 | #542 of 1,268 | #9 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #759 of 1,085 | #20 of 31 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.3% | #686 of 1,088 | #17 of 31 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #731 of 1,169 | #26 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +33.1% | #21 of 257 | #1 of 13 |
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
422
+129 (+44%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 366
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 422 | 25.2 | 16.7:1 | 44% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 387 | 24.6 | 15.7:1 | 38% (148) |
| 2022-23 | 399 | 24.9 | 16.0:1 | 34% (136) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | 20 | 14.7:1 | 26% (77) |
| 2017-18 | 317 | 19.8 | 16.1:1 | 35% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 304 | 17 | 17.9:1 | 38% (115) |
| 2010-11 | 243 | 12 | 20.3:1 | 28% (68) |
| 2000-01 | 298 | 16 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 366 | 19 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 33% (317 to 422); teachers up 28% (19.8 to 25.2).
About Parkview Elementary School
Parkview Elementary School, located in Bellingham, Washington, is a medium-sized elementary school. A total of 422 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5.
Bellingham School District runs Parkview Elementary School along with 24 other schools, enrolling 11,337 students in total.
At 64%, White students outnumber all other groups at Parkview Elementary School combined. The school is also 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 78%. The chance that two students picked at random at Parkview Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 53%.
The school employs the equivalent of 25.2 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 16.7:1. Elementary schools in Washington average about 17.3:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Parkview Elementary School is 44%. Across public schools in Whatcom County, the average is about the same, 47%.
Schools in Washington with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 50.5%. Parkview Elementary School scores 55.0%.
Across Whatcom County, median household income is about $81,784, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Parkview Elementary School is among the 78 public schools in Whatcom County.
Sunnyland Elementary School is the public school closest to Parkview Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. Parkview Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Parkview Elementary School at 2nd of 7.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school counted 293 students in 2020-21 and 422 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 14.7:1 to 16.7:1.
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Whatcom County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
230,503
Census ACS
Median income
$81,784
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
27,779 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bellingham School District
- Squalicum High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Bellingham High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Sehome High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- Whatcom Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Shuksan Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Fairhaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 588 students
Other schools in Bellingham
- Squalicum High SchoolHigh · 1,273 students
- Bellingham High SchoolHigh · 1,165 students
- Sehome High SchoolHigh · 1,116 students
- Whatcom Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Shuksan Middle SchoolMiddle · 606 students
- Fairhaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 588 students
Other Parkview Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 19 states are named Parkview Elementary. Parkview Elementary School is the 21st largest of the 41.
- Parkview ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 920 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARYROSEMOUNT, MN · 674 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 618 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 609 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 588 students
Nearby schools
- Sunnyland Elementary School0.7 mi · 288
- Columbia Elementary School0.8 mi · 187
- Whatcom Middle School0.8 mi · 637
- Bellingham High School1.0 mi · 1,165
- Options High School1.0 mi · 176
- Whatcom Co Detention Center1.1 mi · 4
Frequently asked questions
About Parkview Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Parkview Elementary School?
Parkview Elementary School enrolls approximately 422 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Parkview Elementary School serve?
Parkview Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Parkview Elementary School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Parkview Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Parkview Elementary School?
Student demographics at Parkview Elementary School are roughly 64% White, 21% Hispanic, 1% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Parkview Elementary School?
Parkview Elementary School is overseen by Bellingham School District in Whatcom County.
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