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If you could change one rule at Pinecrest Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
410
Elementary
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530108002655
Pinecrest Elementary
5530 PINE RD NE, BREMERTON, WA 98311 · (360) 662-9200 · Kitsap County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL410 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
202 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 | 20 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
44.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -11.5pp since 2014
Math
28.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -15.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.8% | 28.6% |
| 2023-24 | 46.4% | 33.5% |
| 2022-23 | 44.2% | 32.0% |
| 2021-22 | 51.2% | 34.7% |
| 2018-19 | 55.4% | 47.5% |
| 2017-18 | 53.2% | 39.8% |
| 2016-17 | 56.1% | 48.7% |
| 2015-16 | 69.3% | 56.0% |
| 2014-15 | 56.4% | 44.2% |
% 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
41.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 Pinecrest Elementary
Pinecrest Elementary's state test result (41.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinecrest Elementary this school | 410 | 49.3% | 41.2% |
| Woodlands Elementary BREMERTON | 379 | 48.0% | 45.7% |
| Broad View Elementary Oak Harbor | 369 | 48.2% | 42.8% |
| Hearthwood Elementary School Vancouver | 360 | 51.4% | N/A |
| Allen Creek Elementary School Marysville | 437 | 49.2% | 37.2% |
| Vossbeck Elementary School LYNDEN | 468 | 51.5% | 57.9% |
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 Pinecrest Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #605 of 936 | #32 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #902 of 1,103 ▼ 115 | #35 of 38 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #627 of 1,102 ▼ 61 | #32 of 38 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -6.2pp | #117 of 928 | #7 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 410 | #600 of 1,268 | #17 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #524 of 1,085 | #31 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.1% | #288 of 1,088 | #5 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.3% | #652 of 1,169 | #11 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #673 of 778 | #25 of 32 |
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
410
+60 (+17%) vs 2020
-18% since 2000-01, when it was 500
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
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 | 410 | 26 | 15.8:1 | 49% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 439 | 28.7 | 15.3:1 | 52% (228) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 27.3 | 15.6:1 | 50% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 350 | 23 | 15.2:1 | 32% (113) |
| 2017-18 | 432 | 25.3 | 17.1:1 | 31% (134) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 28 | 16.6:1 | 48% (224) |
| 2010-11 | 492 | 25 | 19.7:1 | 35% (171) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 25 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pinecrest Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (432 to 410); teachers up 3% (25.3 to 26).
About Pinecrest Elementary
Among the schools in BREMERTON, Washington, is Pinecrest Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. It has an enrollment of 410 students in pre-K through 5.
Central Kitsap School District enrolls 11,100 students, and its 19 schools include Pinecrest Elementary.
No group is above 50% at Pinecrest Elementary; the largest is White, at 46%. Beyond that, enrollment is 24% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Asian, and 3% Native American. The White share of the county population is higher, at 75%. The diversity index for Pinecrest Elementary is 70%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 15.8 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. Of all students at Pinecrest Elementary, 49% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 41% for public schools in Kitsap County.
Pinecrest Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.2% and a predicted 47.1%.
In Kitsap County, median household income comes to about $104,158, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Kitsap County counts 77 public schools with about 34,233 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Barker Creek Community School, is about 0.7 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Pinecrest Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Pinecrest Elementary is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 410, from 350 in 2020-21.
This page is set up for the Pinecrest Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Central Kitsap School District
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
Other schools in BREMERTON
- Bremerton High SchoolHigh · 1,263 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Mountain View Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Barker Creek Community SchoolCombined · 551 students
- Catalyst Public SchoolsCombined · 504 students
Other Pinecrest Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Pinecrest Elementary. Pinecrest Elementary is the 6th largest of the 7.
- PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 1,001 students
- PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLITHIA, FL · 614 students
- PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLIMMOKALEE, FL · 584 students
- Pinecrest ElementaryHASTINGS, MN · 436 students
- Pinecrest Elementary SchoolSylacauga, AL · 426 students
Nearby schools
- Barker Creek Community School0.7 mi · 551
- Woodlands Elementary1.3 mi · 379
- Armin Jahr Elementary1.4 mi · 495
- View Ridge Elementary Arts Academy1.4 mi · 388
- Olympic High School1.6 mi · 1,162
- Esquire Hills Elementary1.7 mi · 288
Frequently asked questions
About Pinecrest ElementaryHow many students attend Pinecrest Elementary?
Pinecrest Elementary enrolls approximately 410 students in grades PK-05.
Is Pinecrest Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Pinecrest Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Pinecrest Elementary?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Pinecrest Elementary.
How diverse is Pinecrest Elementary?
Pinecrest Elementary reports a student body of 46% White, 24% Hispanic, 2% Black, 9% Asian, 14% Two or more.
What district is Pinecrest Elementary in?
Pinecrest Elementary is part of Central Kitsap School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.