Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Tulalip, Washington, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary instructs 498 students from grades K through 5, operated by Marysville School District. Enrollment runs roughly 31% above the state mean of about 380.

Within Marysville School District, which oversees 23 schools and 9,760 students, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 31% Native American, 17% White, 15% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

In terms of school funding signals, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Snohomish County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.4%; Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary posts 14.7%, -17.7 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) reports that median household earnings sit near $111,246, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary is one.

Legacy High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary's enrollment has decreased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 553 (now 498). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 17% to 35% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.