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Enrollment
487
Elementary
DISTRICT 336 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530576000854
Poulsbo Elementary School
18531 Noll Rd NE, Poulsbo, WA 98370 · (360) 396-3500 · Kitsap County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% of Washington public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
132 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 | 29 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
70.2%
WA avg 58.4% . +7.8pp since 2014
Math
66.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +12.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.2% | 66.8% |
| 2023-24 | 72.7% | 63.9% |
| 2022-23 | 70.5% | 58.1% |
| 2021-22 | 64.3% | 56.3% |
| 2018-19 | 60.5% | 57.5% |
| 2017-18 | 58.3% | 53.9% |
| 2016-17 | 56.3% | 54.2% |
| 2015-16 | 64.7% | 58.2% |
| 2014-15 | 62.4% | 54.4% |
% 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
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 Poulsbo Elementary School
Poulsbo Elementary School's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poulsbo Elementary School this school | 487 | 27.1% | 69.3% |
| Stillwater Elementary Carnation | 491 | 24.0% | 62.6% |
| Emerald Hills Elementary Bonney Lake | 551 | 28.9% | 69.9% |
| Cathcart Elementary Snohomish | 497 | 28.4% | 62.4% |
| Cascade View Elementary Snohomish | 412 | 26.7% | 48.0% |
| Fruitland Elementary Puyallup | 566 | 29.7% | 62.4% |
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 Poulsbo Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #143 of 936 | #6 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #168 of 1,103 ▲ 28 | #6 of 38 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.2% | #154 of 1,102 ▼ 30 | #6 of 38 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.2pp | #127 of 928 | #5 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #329 of 1,268 | #6 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #985 of 1,085 | #37 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #606 of 1,088 | #23 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.1% | #968 of 1,169 | #34 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #504 of 778 | #18 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
487
+124 (+34%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 636
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 487 | 26.8 | 18.1:1 | 27% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 465 | 26.7 | 17.4:1 | 29% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 448 | 27.2 | 16.5:1 | 26% (118) |
| 2020-21 | 363 | 23 | 15.8:1 | 26% (94) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 31.7 | 17.6:1 | 34% (189) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 32 | 16.9:1 | 35% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 501 | 26 | 19.3:1 | 33% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 608 | 31 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 636 | 28 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Poulsbo Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (558 to 487); teachers down 15% (31.7 to 26.8).
About Poulsbo Elementary School
Poulsbo Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Poulsbo, Washington. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 487 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Washington is roughly 380 students; this school is 28% bigger than that.
Poulsbo Elementary School is part of North Kitsap School District, where 13 schools serve 5,330 students.
Roughly 63% of students at Poulsbo Elementary School are White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, and 7% Asian. By comparison, Kitsap County residents are about 75% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 56% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.1:1. That is higher than the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 27%. Among public schools in Kitsap County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
allk12 grades Poulsbo Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Washington public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Washington with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 62.0%. Poulsbo Elementary School scores 69.3%.
In Kitsap County (population about 277,881), the median household income is $104,158, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. There are 77 public schools in Kitsap County, enrolling about 34,233 students in all.
Poulsbo Middle School is located about 0.2 miles from Poulsbo Elementary School. Around the school, 7 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Poulsbo Elementary School is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Poulsbo Elementary School as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment at Poulsbo Elementary School climbed 34% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 363 to 487 students. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.8:1 to 18.1:1 over the same years.
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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 North Kitsap School District
- North Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,098 students
- Poulsbo Middle SchoolMiddle · 713 students
- Kingston High SchoolHigh · 602 students
- Vinland ElementaryElementary · 527 students
- Kingston Middle SchoolMiddle · 455 students
- Richard Gordon ElementaryElementary · 361 students
Other schools in Poulsbo
- North Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,098 students
- Poulsbo Middle SchoolMiddle · 713 students
- Vinland ElementaryElementary · 527 students
- Hilder Pearson ElementaryElementary · 286 students
- Chief Kitsap AcademyCombined · 74 students
Nearby schools
- Poulsbo Middle School0.2 mi · 713
- North Kitsap High School0.4 mi · 1,098
- Hilder Pearson Elementary2.4 mi · 286
- Chief Kitsap Academy2.5 mi · 74
- Suquamish Elementary School2.9 mi · 314
- Vinland Elementary3.4 mi · 527
Frequently asked questions
About Poulsbo Elementary SchoolHow large is Poulsbo Elementary School?
Poulsbo Elementary School enrolls approximately 487 students in grades PK-05.
Is Poulsbo Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Poulsbo Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Poulsbo Elementary School have?
Poulsbo Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Poulsbo Elementary School?
Student demographics at Poulsbo Elementary School are roughly 63% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 7% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Poulsbo Elementary School?
Poulsbo Elementary School is overseen by North Kitsap School District in Kitsap County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.