Enrollment
362
Elementary
DISTRICT 196 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPOKANE)·NCES 530969001646
Pasadena Park Elementary
8508 E UPRIVER DRIVE, SPOKANE, WA 99212 · (509) 922-5480 · Spokane County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL362 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
174 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 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 23% |
This year's 1st grade class (61) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
38%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
Pasadena Park 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
49.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -19.4pp since 2014
Math
50.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -14.7pp since 2014
What 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 51 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 19 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 | 49.1% | 50.9% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 49.3% |
| 2022-23 | 45.9% | 46.4% |
| 2021-22 | 48.6% | 55.7% |
| 2018-19 | 62.6% | 57.6% |
| 2017-18 | 53.8% | 51.3% |
| 2016-17 | 56.5% | 54.3% |
| 2015-16 | 65.2% | 64.5% |
| 2014-15 | 68.5% | 65.6% |
% 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
50.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 Pasadena Park Elementary
Pasadena Park Elementary's state test result (50.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pasadena Park Elementary this school | 362 | 48.1% | 50.7% |
| Beacon Avenue Elementary School Montesano | 333 | 46.5% | N/A |
| Mount Erie Elementary Anacortes | 327 | 46.8% | 58.5% |
| Reardan Elementary School REARDAN | 345 | 48.1% | 46.1% |
| Heights Elementary Clarkston | 358 | 43.6% | N/A |
| Mccleary Elem McCleary | 332 | 45.2% | 42.4% |
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 Pasadena Park Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #419 of 936 | #37 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #427 of 1,103 ▲ 29 | #36 of 83 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #531 of 1,102 ▲ 68 | #46 of 83 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.1pp | #275 of 928 | #25 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 362 | #768 of 1,268 | #56 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #648 of 1,085 | #65 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.5% | #954 of 1,088 | #62 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #679 of 1,169 | #55 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.2% | #672 of 778 | #59 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
362
+31 (+9%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 299
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 362 | 22.3 | 16.2:1 | 48% (174) |
| 2023-24 | 353 | 22 | 16.1:1 | 47% (166) |
| 2022-23 | 346 | 21 | 16.5:1 | 50% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 331 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 28% (94) |
| 2017-18 | 382 | 21.6 | 17.7:1 | 32% (123) |
| 2015-16 | 409 | 22 | 18.6:1 | 38% (155) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 18 | 22.3:1 | 37% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 247 | 14 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 299 | 14 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pasadena Park Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (382 to 362); teachers up 3% (21.6 to 22.3).
About Pasadena Park Elementary
Pasadena Park Elementary is one of the public schools in SPOKANE, Washington. It is a medium-sized elementary school. The school's 362 students are in grades 1 through 5.
Pasadena Park Elementary is one school in West Valley School District (Spokane), a system of 13 schools with 3,475 students.
A majority of students at Pasadena Park Elementary, 78%, are White. Next come 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Pasadena Park Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 38%.
Its 22.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 16.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 48% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Pasadena Park Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.7% and a predicted 48.0%.
In the county around the school, Spokane County, median household income is about $78,582, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Pasadena Park Elementary is among the 187 public schools in Spokane County.
West Valley High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Pasadena Park Elementary is ahead of the 43.2% nearby average, ranking 1st of 4.
Pasadena Park Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Pasadena Park Elementary went from 331 students to 362. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.1:1 in 2020-21, and 16.2:1 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
- Dishman Hills High SchoolHigh · 296 students
- Seth Woodard ElementaryElementary · 262 students
- Ness ElementaryElementary · 243 students
- Spokane Valley High SchoolHigh · 229 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 High School1.0 mi · 836
- Millwood Kindergarten Center1.0 mi · 178
- Open Doors re-engagement1.1 mi · 3
- Orchard Center Elementary1.2 mi · 199
- West Valley Early Learning Center1.4 mi · 91
- Spokane Valley High School1.5 mi · 229
Frequently asked questions
About Pasadena Park ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Pasadena Park Elementary?
Pasadena Park Elementary enrolls approximately 362 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Pasadena Park Elementary serve?
Pasadena Park Elementary serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Pasadena Park Elementary have?
Pasadena Park Elementary employs 22 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
How diverse is Pasadena Park Elementary?
Pasadena Park Elementary reports a student body of 78% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Pasadena Park Elementary in?
Pasadena Park Elementary is part of West Valley School District (Spokane).
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