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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Ridgeview Elementary administration to hear?
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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001687
Ridgeview Elementary
609 W Washington Ave, Yakima, WA 98903 · (509) 573-1800 · Yakima County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
465 students
DISTRICT 86% · 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 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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% . -1.1pp since 2014
Math
27.9%
WA avg 51.2% . +1.0pp 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 28 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 1 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.7% | 27.9% |
| 2023-24 | 30.4% | 25.8% |
| 2022-23 | 26.9% | 29.6% |
| 2021-22 | 28.8% | 28.5% |
| 2018-19 | 41.4% | 41.6% |
| 2017-18 | 41.7% | 40.3% |
| 2016-17 | 33.9% | 32.7% |
| 2015-16 | 33.8% | 30.6% |
| 2014-15 | 27.8% | 26.8% |
% 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
29.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
21.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Ridgeview Elementary
Ridgeview Elementary's state test result (29.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridgeview Elementary this school | 533 | 87.2% | 29.4% |
| Union Gap School Union Gap | 558 | 88.5% | 44.8% |
| Hiawatha Elementary School Othello | 579 | 83.6% | N/A |
| Chief Kamiakin Elementary School Sunnyside | 575 | 87.7% | 28.5% |
| Washington Elementary Sunnyside | 602 | 85.0% | 35.7% |
| Pioneer Elementary School Sunnyside | 602 | 86.4% | 25.2% |
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 Ridgeview Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #806 of 936 | #23 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #913 of 1,103 ▲ 29 | #26 of 45 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.7% | #997 of 1,102 ▼ 64 | #30 of 45 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.4pp | #307 of 928 | #15 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #207 of 1,268 | #13 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #262 of 1,085 | #8 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.6% | #1,035 of 1,088 | #33 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.2% | #49 of 1,169 | #22 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.5% | #421 of 778 | #23 of 40 |
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
533
-56 (-10%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 529
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 533 | 36.4 | 14.6:1 | 87% (465) |
| 2023-24 | 535 | 40.7 | 13.2:1 | 92% (490) |
| 2022-23 | 537 | 35.6 | 15.1:1 | 92% (492) |
| 2020-21 | 589 | 35 | 16.8:1 | 84% (493) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | 36.9 | 17.1:1 | 76% (482) |
| 2015-16 | 643 | 35 | 18.4:1 | 89% (574) |
| 2010-11 | 533 | 31 | 17.2:1 | 77% (408) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 30 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 529 | 28 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ridgeview Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (631 to 533); teachers down 1% (36.9 to 36.4).
About Ridgeview Elementary
Ridgeview Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in Yakima, Washington. The school had 533 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Ridgeview Elementary is a school in Yakima School District. The district has 27 schools and 15,488 students.
The student body at Ridgeview Elementary is 87% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 11% White. Yakima County's residents are about 52% Hispanic, 34 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 24%, meaning two students picked at random have a 24% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
With 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Ridgeview Elementary was 14.6:1. On average, elementary schools in Washington have 17.3:1, compared with 14.6:1 here. Ridgeview Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 87%. Across public schools in Yakima County, the average is 77%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Ridgeview Elementary would score about 21.7%. It scores 29.4%, 7.8 points above that figure.
In the county around the school, Yakima County, the median household income is $70,656, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Yakima County is home to 119 public schools and about 52,145 public school students.
The next-closest public school is Lewis & Clark Middle School, about 0.5 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Ridgeview Elementary ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Ridgeview Elementary is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.
The school enrolled 533 students in 2024-25, 56 fewer than the 589 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.6:1.
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Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yakima School District
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Other Ridgeview Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 16 states are named Ridgeview Elementary. Ridgeview Elementary is the 9th largest of the 21.
- Ridgeview ElementarySpokane, WA · 301 students
- Ridgeview Elementary SchoolGray, TN · 704 students
- Ridgeview ElementaryClintwood, VA · 667 students
- Ridgeview Elementary SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 626 students
- Ridgeview ElementaryGranite Bay, CA · 619 students
Nearby schools
- Lewis & Clark Middle School0.5 mi · 815
- Hoover Elementary School0.6 mi · 582
- Mcclure Elementary School1.4 mi · 559
- Mckinley Elementary School1.4 mi · 403
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary1.7 mi · 485
- Davis High School1.7 mi · 2,359
Frequently asked questions
About Ridgeview ElementaryHow large is Ridgeview Elementary?
Ridgeview Elementary enrolls approximately 533 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ridgeview Elementary serve?
Ridgeview Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Ridgeview Elementary?
Approximately 14.6:1 students per teacher at Ridgeview Elementary.
How diverse is Ridgeview Elementary?
Ridgeview Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 87% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Ridgeview Elementary public or private?
Ridgeview Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Yakima School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.