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If you had an hour of school board time for Penny Creek Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
791
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERETT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530267002669
Penny Creek Elementary
4117 132nd St. SE, Everett, WA 98208 · (425) 385-7200 · Snohomish County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL791 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.5:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
279 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 | 125 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 123 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 131 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 147 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 147 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (125) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (147).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
70.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.5pp since 2014
Math
68.9%
WA avg 51.2% . +1.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.9% | 68.9% |
| 2023-24 | 71.1% | 71.7% |
| 2022-23 | 73.6% | 69.7% |
| 2021-22 | 76.2% | 68.7% |
| 2018-19 | 79.5% | 75.1% |
| 2017-18 | 77.9% | 78.4% |
| 2016-17 | 73.7% | 72.2% |
| 2015-16 | 74.0% | 66.4% |
| 2014-15 | 68.4% | 66.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 Penny Creek Elementary
Penny Creek Elementary's state test result (71.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penny Creek Elementary this school | 791 | 35.3% | 71.4% |
| Clark Elementary ISSAQUAH | 586 | 28.3% | 69.7% |
| Mill Creek Elementary Mill Creek | 694 | 25.2% | 78.3% |
| Crystal Springs Elementary Bothell | 500 | 35.0% | 61.8% |
| Columbia Elementary Mukilteo | 596 | 33.2% | 58.5% |
| Woodmoor Elementary Bothell | 643 | 38.9% | 54.1% |
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 Penny Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.4% | #125 of 936 | #15 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.9% | #138 of 1,103 ▼ 25 | #16 of 106 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.9% | #144 of 1,102 ▼ 5 | #18 of 106 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #244 of 928 | #16 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 791 | #11 of 1,268 | #3 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #846 of 1,085 | #83 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.4% | #211 of 1,088 | #25 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.3% | #863 of 1,169 | #67 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.6% | #165 of 257 | #25 of 37 |
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
791
+135 (+21%) vs 2020
+38% since 2000-01, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 791 | 46.2 | 17.1:1 | 35% (279) |
| 2023-24 | 790 | 45.1 | 17.5:1 | 36% (288) |
| 2022-23 | 759 | 41.7 | 18.2:1 | 31% (234) |
| 2020-21 | 656 | 38 | 17.3:1 | 24% (160) |
| 2017-18 | 749 | 39.3 | 19.1:1 | 18% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 720 | 34 | 21.2:1 | 24% (173) |
| 2010-11 | 725 | 34 | 21.3:1 | 22% (161) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 26 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Penny Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (749 to 791); teachers up 18% (39.3 to 46.2).
About Penny Creek Elementary
Penny Creek Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school based in Everett, Washington. It enrolls 791 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 108% larger than the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington.
Everett School District (32 schools, 20,489 students) runs Penny Creek Elementary.
The largest group at Penny Creek Elementary is White students, at 38%. Smaller groups are 31% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% Black. For comparison, the population of Snohomish County is roughly 64% White. The diversity index for Penny Creek Elementary is 72%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 46.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Washington is about 17.3:1. A total of 279 students, or 35%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Penny Creek Elementary does better than predicted by 14.9 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 71.4%; the prediction is 56.5%.
The school is in Snohomish County, where the median household earns about $111,246 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Penny Creek Elementary shares Snohomish County with 226 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Seattle Hill Elementary, is about 0.7 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Penny Creek Elementary places 4th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 21%, from 656 to 791.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Penny Creek Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Everett School District
- Henry M. Jackson High SchoolHigh · 2,148 students
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Heatherwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,031 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
Other schools in Everett
- Mariner High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Cascade High SchoolHigh · 1,651 students
- Everett High SchoolHigh · 1,643 students
- Gateway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,057 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 914 students
- Voyager Middle SchoolMiddle · 902 students
Nearby schools
- Seattle Hill Elementary0.7 mi · 567
- Mill Creek Elementary1.3 mi · 694
- Silver Lake Elementary1.3 mi · 550
- Silver Firs Elementary1.4 mi · 538
- Henry M. Jackson High School1.5 mi · 2,148
- Heatherwood Middle School1.6 mi · 1,031
Frequently asked questions
About Penny Creek ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Penny Creek Elementary?
Penny Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 791 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Penny Creek Elementary serve?
Penny Creek Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Penny Creek Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Penny Creek Elementary is approximately 17.1:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Penny Creek Elementary?
Student demographics at Penny Creek Elementary are roughly 38% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% Black, 31% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Penny Creek Elementary public or private?
Penny Creek Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Everett School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.