Pioneer Elementary School

Pioneer Elementary School operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Vancouver, Washington, run under Evergreen School District (Clark). Current enrollment sits at 550 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 380.

Evergreen School District (Clark) runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 21,603 students. Pioneer Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Pioneer Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 40% White, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Clark County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Pioneer Elementary School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. Roughly 43% of students at Pioneer Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Clark County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,536 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Pioneer Elementary School is one of 151 public schools in Clark County (combined enrollment of about 74,406 students).

The closest other public school is Frontier Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pioneer Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 693 (now 550). White enrollment moved from 53% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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