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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Pioneer Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
621
Elementary
DISTRICT 529 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530030000039
Pioneer Elementary School
2301 M St SE, AUBURN, WA 98002 · (253) 931-4986 · King County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL621 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
447 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 53 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 46% larger than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
26.7%
WA avg 58.4% . -36.3pp since 2014
Math
36.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -36.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 36 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 37 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.7% | 36.6% |
| 2023-24 | 25.6% | 35.3% |
| 2022-23 | 31.1% | 35.3% |
| 2021-22 | 27.0% | 30.2% |
| 2018-19 | 49.6% | 52.3% |
| 2017-18 | 49.2% | 56.1% |
| 2016-17 | 58.8% | 76.9% |
| 2015-16 | 77.4% | 83.9% |
| 2014-15 | 63.0% | 73.2% |
% 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
29.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 School
Pioneer Elementary School's state test result (29.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Elementary School this school | 621 | 72.0% | 29.8% |
| Horizon Elementary Everett | 550 | 74.5% | 23.3% |
| Chester H Thompson Elementary TACOMA | 688 | 67.2% | 38.7% |
| Hazel Valley Elementary Burien | 469 | 67.0% | 24.2% |
| Gildo Rey Elementary School AUBURN | 416 | 72.6% | 36.3% |
| East Valley Elementary Yakima | 562 | 69.2% | 48.3% |
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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In King County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #801 of 936 | #242 of 280 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #738 of 1,103 ▼ 3 | #211 of 281 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #996 of 1,102 ▲ 10 | #253 of 280 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.1pp | #366 of 928 | #93 of 274 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 621 | #82 of 1,268 | #15 of 299 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #216 of 1,085 | #53 of 280 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #509 of 1,088 | #218 of 281 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.0% | #223 of 1,169 | #40 of 292 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.5% | #38 of 257 | #14 of 54 |
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
621
+164 (+36%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 577
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 621 | 43 | 14.4:1 | 72% (447) |
| 2023-24 | 646 | 44.2 | 14.6:1 | 74% (480) |
| 2022-23 | 651 | 41 | 15.9:1 | 78% (507) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 79% (359) |
| 2017-18 | 495 | 31.5 | 15.7:1 | 82% (404) |
| 2015-16 | 493 | 28 | 17.6:1 | 83% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | 22 | 20.0:1 | 62% (272) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 21 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 577 | 23 | 25.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Pioneer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 25% (495 to 621); teachers up 36% (31.5 to 43).
About Pioneer Elementary School
This page covers Pioneer Elementary School, a large elementary school in AUBURN, Washington. It has an enrollment of 621 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students, which makes this school 63% bigger than average.
The district, Auburn School District, operates 26 schools serving 18,174 students.
The largest group at Pioneer Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 60%. The remaining students are 14% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Pacific Islander, and 6% Asian. Among people living in King County, the Hispanic share is about 11%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Pioneer Elementary School scores 61%.
The school has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.4 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average 17.3:1. Of all students at Pioneer Elementary School, 72% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in King County average 38%.
Pioneer Elementary School is 2.1 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (29.8% versus 31.9%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Washington.
American Community Survey estimates for King County show that median household income comes to about $124,746, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. King County counts 544 public schools with about 278,492 students.
Of the public schools around it, Pioneer Elementary School is closest to Olympic Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. Pioneer Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Pioneer Elementary School at 7th of 9.
The federal government classifies Pioneer Elementary School's location as City: Small.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Pioneer Elementary School had a net gain of 164 students, or 36%. The school's ratio increased from 13.4:1 to 14.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Pioneer Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
King County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,287,171
Census ACS
Median income
$124,746
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
544
278,492 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Auburn School District
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Mt Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
Other schools in AUBURN
- Auburn Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,918 students
- Auburn Riverside High SchoolHigh · 1,852 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Auburn Mountainview High SchoolHigh · 1,560 students
- Cascade Middle SchoolMiddle · 966 students
- Olympic Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
Other Pioneer Elementary schools
28 other US public schools in 12 states are named Pioneer Elementary. Pioneer Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 29.
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolSunnyside, WA · 602 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolVancouver, WA · 550 students
- Pioneer ElementaryArlington, WA · 501 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolSHELTON, WA · 482 students
- Pioneer Elementary SchoolGig Harbor, WA · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Olympic Middle School0.2 mi · 956
- Gildo Rey Elementary School0.7 mi · 416
- Terminal Park Elementary School0.8 mi · 610
- Mt Baker Middle School1.0 mi · 917
- Washington Elementary School1.5 mi · 501
- Auburn Riverside High School1.5 mi · 1,852
Frequently asked questions
About Pioneer Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Pioneer Elementary School?
Pioneer Elementary School enrolls approximately 621 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Pioneer Elementary School serve?
Pioneer Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Pioneer Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Pioneer Elementary School is approximately 14.4:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Pioneer Elementary School?
Pioneer Elementary School reports a student body of 14% White, 60% Hispanic, 4% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Pioneer Elementary School public or private?
Pioneer Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Auburn School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.