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Enrollment
525
Elementary
DISTRICT 518 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHENEY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530123003413
Phil Snowdon Elementary
6323 S Holly Rd, Cheney, WA 99004 · (509) 559-4200 · Spokane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL525 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
278 students
DISTRICT 61% · 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 | 29 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
51.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.4pp since 2014
Math
46.6%
WA avg 51.2% . +1.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.8% | 46.6% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 47.5% |
| 2022-23 | 45.5% | 47.7% |
| 2021-22 | 47.7% | 50.0% |
| 2018-19 | 61.0% | 61.5% |
| 2017-18 | 57.8% | 58.7% |
| 2016-17 | 51.8% | 47.4% |
| 2015-16 | 50.2% | 46.9% |
| 2014-15 | 52.2% | 45.4% |
% 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
49.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 Phil Snowdon Elementary
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Snowdon Elementary this school | 525 | 53.0% | 49.3% |
| Salish Coast Elementary Port Townsend | 528 | 51.1% | 53.5% |
| Greywolf Elementary School Sequim | 506 | 51.6% | N/A |
| Mountain Way Elementary Granite Falls | 556 | 54.7% | N/A |
| Greenacres Elementary Spokane Valley | 637 | 53.2% | 56.7% |
| Helen Haller Elementary School Sequim | 508 | 56.7% | N/A |
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 Phil Snowdon Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #442 of 936 | #42 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #498 of 1,103 ▼ 12 | #42 of 83 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.8% | #472 of 1,102 ▲ 149 | #36 of 83 ▲ 18 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.4pp | #531 of 928 | #52 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 525 | #228 of 1,268 | #8 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #562 of 1,085 | #60 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.1% | #817 of 1,088 | #36 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.0% | #579 of 1,169 | #50 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.6% | #164 of 257 | #8 of 14 |
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
525
+70 (+15%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 525 | 33.1 | 15.9:1 | 53% (278) |
| 2023-24 | 545 | 33.1 | 16.4:1 | 53% (289) |
| 2022-23 | 549 | 32.3 | 17.0:1 | 50% (276) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 30 | 15.2:1 | 43% (195) |
| 2017-18 | 497 | 27.7 | 17.9:1 | 48% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 471 | 26 | 18.1:1 | 48% (224) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Phil Snowdon Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (497 to 525); teachers up 19% (27.7 to 33.1).
About Phil Snowdon Elementary
Phil Snowdon Elementary is a public mid-sized elementary school in Cheney, Washington. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 525 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Washington enroll about 380 students on average.
Phil Snowdon Elementary is in Cheney School District, a district with 5,662 students across 12 schools.
More than half of the students at Phil Snowdon Elementary are White (71%). Next come 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander, and 2% Black. That compares with about 83% White among all Spokane County residents. The diversity index for Phil Snowdon Elementary is 47%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 33.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 15.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1. The school reported 53% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The average for public schools in Spokane County is similar, at 52%.
Phil Snowdon Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 49.3% is 4.7 points above the 44.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school's county is Spokane County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $78,582, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 33%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 187 public schools in the county, enrolling about 76,588, Phil Snowdon Elementary among them.
Phil Snowdon Elementary is about 2.0 miles from Windsor Elementary, its nearest public school. There are 5 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Phil Snowdon Elementary ranks 4th of 7 nearby schools, at 49.3% versus a 47.1% average.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Rural: Fringe, meaning it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 70 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Phil Snowdon Elementary lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Cheney School District
- Cheney High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Cheney Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Sunset ElementaryElementary · 634 students
- Westwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 624 students
- Windsor ElementaryElementary · 549 students
- Betz ElementaryElementary · 535 students
Other schools in Cheney
- Cheney High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Cheney Middle SchoolMiddle · 637 students
- Betz ElementaryElementary · 535 students
- Salnave ElementaryElementary · 347 students
- HomeWorksCombined · 145 students
- Three Springs High SchoolHigh · 103 students
Nearby schools
- Windsor Elementary2.0 mi · 549
- Westwood Middle School2.2 mi · 624
- HomeWorks3.6 mi · 145
- Three Springs High School3.6 mi · 103
- Sunset Elementary4.3 mi · 634
- Wilson Elementary5.6 mi · 307
Frequently asked questions
About Phil Snowdon ElementaryHow many students attend Phil Snowdon Elementary?
Phil Snowdon Elementary enrolls approximately 525 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Phil Snowdon Elementary serve?
Phil Snowdon Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Phil Snowdon Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Phil Snowdon Elementary is approximately 15.9:1 (33 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Phil Snowdon Elementary?
Student demographics at Phil Snowdon Elementary are roughly 71% White, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Phil Snowdon Elementary public or private?
Phil Snowdon Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cheney School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.