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Enrollment
501
Elementary
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530024002940
Pioneer Elementary
8213 Eaglefield Dr, Arlington, WA 98223 · (360) 618-6230 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
197 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 88 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
42.8%
WA avg 58.4% . -15.7pp since 2014
Math
44.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -5.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 16 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.8% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.2% | 36.2% |
| 2022-23 | 48.0% | 32.7% |
| 2021-22 | 43.4% | 29.6% |
| 2018-19 | 61.1% | 57.3% |
| 2017-18 | 67.4% | 64.4% |
| 2016-17 | 71.0% | 62.0% |
| 2015-16 | 69.2% | 61.3% |
| 2014-15 | 58.5% | 49.1% |
% 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
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Pioneer Elementary
Pioneer Elementary's state test result (43.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Elementary this school | 501 | 39.3% | 43.5% |
| Orting Elementary School Orting | 567 | 39.0% | 39.6% |
| Mt. Pilchuck Elementary School Lake Stevens | 554 | 37.2% | 60.7% |
| Bonney Lake Elementary Bonney Lake | 435 | 38.6% | 71.7% |
| Sunnyslope Elementary School PORT ORCHARD | 503 | 41.7% | 54.7% |
| Chautauqua Elementary VASHON | 480 | 35.0% | 59.3% |
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 Pioneer Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #550 of 936 | #68 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #563 of 1,103 ▲ 157 | #70 of 106 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.8% | #673 of 1,102 ▲ 45 | #78 of 106 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.9pp | #179 of 928 | #13 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #284 of 1,268 | #53 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #459 of 1,085 | #45 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.6% | #729 of 1,088 | #86 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.3% | #806 of 1,169 | #64 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.6% | #478 of 778 | #27 of 68 |
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
501
-1 (0%) vs 2020
-7% since 2010-11, when it was 541
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 501 | 32.4 | 15.5:1 | 39% (197) |
| 2023-24 | 500 | 33.7 | 14.8:1 | 38% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 493 | 34.2 | 14.4:1 | 35% (174) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 34 | 14.8:1 | 29% (146) |
| 2017-18 | 580 | 32.5 | 17.8:1 | 28% (161) |
| 2015-16 | 584 | 30 | 19.5:1 | 31% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 541 | 26 | 20.8:1 | 10% (52) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pioneer Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (580 to 501); teachers down 1% (32.5 to 32.4).
About Pioneer Elementary
Pioneer Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Arlington, Washington. It enrolled 501 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 32% higher than the average for elementary schools in Washington, which is about 380.
Arlington School District serves 5,588 students across 10 schools.
Roughly 66% of students at Pioneer Elementary are White. Other groups make up 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian, and 2% Black. The county population is about 64% White, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Pioneer Elementary is 32.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 15.5:1. This ratio sits 1.8 below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 39%. For comparison, public schools in Snohomish County average 41%.
The model predicts 53.8% for a school in Washington with Pioneer Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Pioneer Elementary posts 43.5%.
Snohomish County has about 844,430 residents, and the median household income is $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Pioneer Elementary, Snohomish County has 226 other public schools.
Arlington High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Pioneer Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Pioneer Elementary ranks 5th of 7 nearby schools, at 43.5% versus a 45.6% average.
In the federal locale system, Pioneer Elementary is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment went from 502 in 2020-21 to 501 in 2024-25, a change of 1 student.
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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 Arlington School District
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Eagle Creek ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Post Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Kent Prairie ElementaryElementary · 621 students
- Presidents ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Haller Middle SchoolMiddle · 576 students
Other schools in Arlington
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 1,650 students
- Lakewood High SchoolHigh · 834 students
- Eagle Creek ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Post Middle SchoolMiddle · 645 students
- Kent Prairie ElementaryElementary · 621 students
- Presidents ElementaryElementary · 578 students
Other Pioneer Elementary schools
28 other US public schools in 12 states are named Pioneer Elementary. Pioneer Elementary is the 13th largest of the 29.
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolAUBURN, WA · 621 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolSunnyside, WA · 602 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolVancouver, WA · 550 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolSHELTON, WA · 482 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolGig Harbor, WA · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Arlington High School0.3 mi · 1,650
- Kent Prairie Elementary1.2 mi · 621
- Haller Middle School1.8 mi · 576
- Eagle Creek Elementary2.0 mi · 665
- Stillaguamish Valley Learning Center2.0 mi · 181
- Presidents Elementary2.1 mi · 578
Frequently asked questions
About Pioneer ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Pioneer Elementary?
Pioneer Elementary enrolls approximately 501 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Pioneer Elementary serve?
Pioneer Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Pioneer Elementary have?
Pioneer Elementary employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Pioneer Elementary?
Student demographics at Pioneer Elementary are roughly 66% White, 19% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Pioneer Elementary in?
Pioneer Elementary is part of Arlington School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.