Pathfinder Kindergarten Center

Families in Everett, Washington, are served by Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, a mid-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through kindergarten make up the school's enrollment of 437 students.

The district, Mukilteo School District, has 15,175 students enrolled across 23 schools.

The largest racial or ethnic group at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center is Hispanic, with 32% of students. Other groups make up 24% White, 21% Asian, 15% Black, and 7% multiracial. Snohomish County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pathfinder Kindergarten Center scores 77%.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5:1. The school has 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1. In all, 62% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 41% average for public schools in Snohomish County.

Census data for Snohomish County show median household income comes to about $111,246, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. The county has 227 public schools and about 118,688 students.

Fairmount Elementary is less than a tenth of a mile from Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Pathfinder Kindergarten Center holds at least 8 other public schools.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Federal enrollment counts rose from 385 (2020-21) to 437 (2024-25). Federal data show the ratio rising from 11.3:1 to 14.5:1.

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