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Which teacher or staff member at Robert Frost Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
459
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCO SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530657000970
Robert Frost Elementary
1915 NORTH 22ND AVENUE, PASCO, WA 99301 · (509) 543-6795 · Franklin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL459 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
409 students
DISTRICT 72% · 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 | 56 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 27% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
19.4%
WA avg 58.4% . +1.1pp since 2014
Math
20.6%
WA avg 51.2% . -3.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.4% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 14.8% | 13.8% |
| 2022-23 | 17.1% | 14.6% |
| 2021-22 | 21.5% | 17.6% |
| 2018-19 | 26.0% | 21.8% |
| 2017-18 | 26.7% | 26.3% |
| 2016-17 | 28.1% | 25.4% |
| 2015-16 | 26.6% | 27.7% |
| 2014-15 | 18.3% | 24.2% |
% 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
17.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 Robert Frost Elementary
Robert Frost Elementary's state test result (17.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Frost Elementary this school | 459 | 89.1% | 17.0% |
| Emerson Elementary PASCO | 447 | 88.8% | 12.8% |
| Sun Valley Elementary School Sunnyside | 474 | 87.8% | N/A |
| Rowena Chess Elementary PASCO | 436 | 91.1% | 11.5% |
| Smith Elementary School Grandview | 477 | 86.4% | 28.4% |
| Virgie Robinson Elementary Pasco | 473 | 89.4% | 21.9% |
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 Robert Frost Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.0% | #918 of 936 | #14 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #1,035 of 1,103 ▲ 40 | #14 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.4% | #1,067 of 1,102 ▲ 18 | #14 of 20 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.4pp | #535 of 928 | #13 of 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 459 | #414 of 1,268 | #11 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #240 of 1,085 | #10 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.8% | #1,076 of 1,088 | #19 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #33 of 1,169 | #7 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.4% | #130 of 778 | #11 of 17 |
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
459
-99 (-18%) vs 2020
+41% since 1990-91, when it was 326
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 459 | 31.6 | 14.5:1 | 89% (409) |
| 2023-24 | 487 | 34.8 | 14.0:1 | 94% (458) |
| 2022-23 | 502 | 30.5 | 16.5:1 | 94% (471) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | 32 | 17.4:1 | 94% (525) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 35 | 18.6:1 | 93% (607) |
| 2015-16 | 645 | 30 | 21.5:1 | 86% (555) |
| 2010-11 | 549 | 30 | 18.3:1 | 94% (517) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 28 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 326 | 19 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Robert Frost Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (650 to 459); teachers down 10% (35 to 31.6).
About Robert Frost Elementary
Robert Frost Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in PASCO, Washington. The student body numbers 459 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
Pasco School District (28 schools, 18,913 students) runs Robert Frost Elementary.
Most students at Robert Frost Elementary are Hispanic: 94% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 4% White. For comparison, the population of Franklin County is roughly 55% Hispanic. Robert Frost Elementary has a diversity index of 11%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its teaching staff equals 31.6 full-time positions, a ratio of 14.5:1. That ratio is under the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Around 89% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is 19 points above the 70% average for public schools in Franklin County.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 20.4% for Robert Frost Elementary. The school posts 17.0%, 3.4 points below the prediction.
Census Bureau estimates for Franklin County show that median household income is about $86,714, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 43 public schools operate in Franklin County, serving about 21,403 students.
The nearest public school is New Horizons High School, at about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Robert Frost Elementary ranks 3rd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 459 was 18% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 558. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (14.5:1) than in 2020-21 (17.4:1).
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Robert Frost Elementary. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
98,902
Census ACS
Median income
$86,714
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
21,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pasco School District
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Other schools in PASCO
- Chiawana Senior High SchoolHigh · 3,127 students
- Pasco Senior High SchoolHigh · 2,590 students
- Ray Reynolds Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,294 students
- Mcloughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 956 students
- Ellen Ochoa Middle SchoolMiddle · 831 students
Other Robert Frost Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Robert Frost Elementary. Robert Frost Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 8.
- Robert Frost ElementaryKirkland, WA · 424 students
- Robert Frost Elementary SchoolMount Prospect, IL · 532 students
- Robert Frost Elementary - 18Sioux Falls, SD · 447 students
- Robert Frost Elementary SchoolWesterville, OH · 420 students
- Robert Frost Elementary SchoolMount Prospect, IL · 359 students
Nearby schools
- New Horizons High School0.5 mi · 344
- Stevens Middle School0.6 mi · 956
- Emerson Elementary0.7 mi · 447
- Rowena Chess Elementary0.8 mi · 436
- Captain Gray STEM Elementary0.9 mi · 408
- Pasco Senior High School0.9 mi · 2,590
Frequently asked questions
About Robert Frost ElementaryHow large is Robert Frost Elementary?
Robert Frost Elementary enrolls approximately 459 students in grades PK-05.
Is Robert Frost Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Robert Frost Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Robert Frost Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Robert Frost Elementary is approximately 14.5:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Robert Frost Elementary?
At Robert Frost Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 94% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is Robert Frost Elementary public or private?
Robert Frost Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pasco School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.