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Enrollment
386
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MEAD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530492003193
Prairie View Elementary
2606 W. Johannsen Rd., Spokane, WA 99208 · (509) 465-7810 · Spokane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL386 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
123 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
59.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.6pp since 2014
Math
64.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -6.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.3% | 64.3% |
| 2023-24 | 60.8% | 68.1% |
| 2022-23 | 66.5% | 65.5% |
| 2021-22 | 69.8% | 75.3% |
| 2018-19 | 78.4% | 81.8% |
| 2017-18 | 77.1% | 75.1% |
| 2016-17 | 71.4% | 69.5% |
| 2015-16 | 74.5% | 68.9% |
| 2014-15 | 69.9% | 70.4% |
% 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
62.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Prairie View Elementary
Prairie View Elementary's state test result (62.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View Elementary this school | 386 | 31.9% | 62.2% |
| Utsalady Elementary CAMANO ISLAND | 391 | 32.5% | 45.9% |
| Chester Elementary School Spokane Valley | 410 | 30.2% | 67.0% |
| Geneva Elementary School Bellingham | 412 | 32.0% | 55.5% |
| Black Lake Elementary Olympia | 382 | 33.8% | 56.1% |
| Jefferson Elementary Spokane | 359 | 32.9% | 62.5% |
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 Prairie View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Spokane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #229 of 936 | #15 of 82 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #202 of 1,103 ▼ 52 | #11 of 83 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #318 of 1,102 ▼ 30 | #23 of 83 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.8pp | #29 of 928 | #3 of 81 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 386 | #685 of 1,268 | #39 of 92 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #383 of 1,085 | #50 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.4% | #932 of 1,088 | #57 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.9% | #909 of 1,169 | #73 of 86 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.3% | #27 of 778 | #2 of 67 |
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
386
-191 (-33%) vs 2020
-40% since 2010-11, when it was 645
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 386 | 25.5 | 15.2:1 | 32% (123) |
| 2023-24 | 377 | 24.2 | 15.6:1 | 26% (98) |
| 2022-23 | 409 | 25.3 | 16.2:1 | 23% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 577 | 35 | 16.5:1 | 10% (58) |
| 2017-18 | 658 | 34.8 | 18.9:1 | 12% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 668 | 33 | 20.2:1 | 13% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 645 | 28 | 23.0:1 | 13% (85) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prairie View Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 41% (658 to 386); teachers down 27% (34.8 to 25.5).
About Prairie View Elementary
Prairie View Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Spokane, Washington. It had 386 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5.
Prairie View Elementary is one of 17 schools in Mead School District, which enrolls 10,657 students in total.
The student body at Prairie View Elementary is 77% White. After that, the student body is 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. A diversity index of 39% means there is a 39% chance two randomly chosen students at Prairie View Elementary are from different groups.
Its staff includes 25.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.2 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Washington, 17.3:1, is higher. Prairie View Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 32%. The average for public schools in Spokane County is 52%.
Prairie View 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 62.2% and a predicted 58.8%.
Spokane County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $78,582 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Prairie View Elementary shares Spokane County with 186 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Skyline Elementary, is about 0.4 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Prairie View Elementary is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place Prairie View Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 386, down from 577 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.2 students per teacher, compared with 16.5 in 2020-21.
Prairie View Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Spokane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
549,056
Census ACS
Median income
$78,582
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
76,588 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mead School District
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Mt Spokane High SchoolHigh · 1,482 students
- Mountainside Middle SchoolMiddle · 824 students
- Northwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 796 students
- Mead Learning OptionsCombined · 790 students
- Highland Middle SchoolMiddle · 704 students
Other schools in Spokane
- Mead Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,827 students
- Lewis & Clark High SchoolHigh · 1,673 students
- North Central High SchoolHigh · 1,647 students
- Ferris High SchoolHigh · 1,644 students
- Rogers High SchoolHigh · 1,498 students
- Shadle Park High SchoolHigh · 1,445 students
Other Prairie View Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 12 states are named Prairie View Elementary. Prairie View Elementary is the 13th largest of the 22.
- Prairie View Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 788 students
- Prairie View Elementary SchoolOTSEGO, MN · 755 students
- Prairie View Elementary SchoolRHOME, TX · 720 students
- PRAIRIE VIEW ELEM.O'FALLON, MO · 696 students
- PRAIRIE VIEW ELEMENTARYEDEN PRAIRIE, MN · 628 students
Nearby schools
- Skyline Elementary0.4 mi · 412
- Mead Learning Options0.6 mi · 790
- Highland Middle School0.8 mi · 704
- Woodridge Elementary1.6 mi · 369
- Evergreen Elementary School1.7 mi · 433
- Linwood Elementary1.9 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About Prairie View ElementaryHow large is Prairie View Elementary?
Prairie View Elementary enrolls approximately 386 students in grades KG-05.
Is Prairie View Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Prairie View Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Prairie View Elementary have?
Prairie View Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Prairie View Elementary?
Student demographics at Prairie View Elementary are roughly 77% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Prairie View Elementary in?
Prairie View Elementary is part of Mead School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.