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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Salem Woods Elementary School this year?
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Enrollment
516
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530513001849
Salem Woods Elementary School
12802 Wagner Rd., Monroe, WA 98272 · (360) 804-3600 · Snohomish County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL516 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 89% 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.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
17.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
152 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 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
67.9%
WA avg 58.4% . +2.5pp since 2014
Math
66.8%
WA avg 51.2% . +6.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 68 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.9% | 66.8% |
| 2023-24 | 66.8% | 70.8% |
| 2022-23 | 73.3% | 72.1% |
| 2021-22 | 67.7% | 65.7% |
| 2018-19 | 67.0% | 60.4% |
| 2017-18 | 73.4% | 64.5% |
| 2016-17 | 70.5% | 68.6% |
| 2015-16 | 70.0% | 63.9% |
| 2014-15 | 65.4% | 60.4% |
% 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
70.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Salem Woods Elementary School
Salem Woods Elementary School's state test result (70.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Woods Elementary School this school | 516 | 29.5% | 70.6% |
| Fruitland Elementary Puyallup | 566 | 29.7% | 62.4% |
| Highland Elementary Lake Stevens | 557 | 28.5% | 61.7% |
| Woodburn Elementary Camas | 553 | 24.6% | N/A |
| Poulsbo Elementary School Poulsbo | 487 | 27.1% | 69.3% |
| Emerald Hills Elementary Bonney Lake | 551 | 28.9% | 69.9% |
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 Salem Woods Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #131 of 936 | #17 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #169 of 1,103 ▼ 46 | #18 of 106 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #185 of 1,102 ▲ 16 | #21 of 106 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.7pp | #514 of 928 | #67 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 516 | #249 of 1,268 | #47 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #867 of 1,085 | #86 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.7% | #777 of 1,088 | #93 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.5% | #942 of 1,169 | #78 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.0% | #189 of 257 | #28 of 37 |
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
516
+110 (+27%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 456
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 516 | 30 | 17.2:1 | 29% (152) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 31.3 | 15.2:1 | 30% (145) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 29.6 | 15.4:1 | 27% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 26 | 15.6:1 | 15% (59) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 26.9 | 18.4:1 | 21% (105) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 25 | 19.2:1 | 26% (125) |
| 2010-11 | 450 | 23 | 19.6:1 | 20% (89) |
| 2000-01 | 516 | 24 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 456 | 21 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salem Woods Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (496 to 516); teachers up 11% (26.9 to 30).
About Salem Woods Elementary School
Salem Woods Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school, is located in Monroe, Washington. The latest federal count shows 516 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington, enrollment here is 36% higher.
Salem Woods Elementary School is one school in Monroe School District, a system of 12 schools with 5,874 students.
White students account for 69% of enrollment at Salem Woods Elementary School. Smaller groups are 13% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Salem Woods Elementary School has a diversity index of 50%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Salem Woods Elementary School employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.2:1. Elementary schools in Washington average about 17.3:1, a similar figure. Salem Woods Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 29%. The rate at public schools in Snohomish County averages 41%, higher than here.
allk12 grades Salem Woods Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Washington public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Compared with Washington schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Salem Woods Elementary School's results are 10.2 points above predicted: 70.6% against 60.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Snohomish County show that median household income is about $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 227 public schools in Snohomish County, with a combined enrollment of about 118,688.
The next-closest public school is Chain Lake Elementary School, about 1.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Salem Woods Elementary School. On proficiency, Salem Woods Elementary School is ahead of the 43.1% nearby average, ranking 1st of 5.
Salem Woods Elementary School is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Salem Woods Elementary School saw enrollment rise 27% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 15.6:1 in 2020-21 and 17.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
844,430
Census ACS
Median income
$111,246
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
227
118,688 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Monroe School District
- Monroe High SchoolHigh · 1,515 students
- Sky Valley Education CenterCombined · 985 students
- Park Place Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Frank Wagner ElementaryElementary · 545 students
- Chain Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
- Fryelands ElementaryElementary · 414 students
Other schools in Monroe
- Monroe High SchoolHigh · 1,515 students
- Sky Valley Education CenterCombined · 985 students
- Park Place Middle SchoolMiddle · 755 students
- Frank Wagner ElementaryElementary · 545 students
- Fryelands ElementaryElementary · 414 students
- Leaders In LearningHigh · 39 students
Nearby schools
- Chain Lake Elementary School1.5 mi · 434
- Out Of District Special Ed2.3 mi · 18
- Monroe Special Ed Preschool2.3 mi · 6
- Sky Valley Education Center2.4 mi · 985
- Frank Wagner Elementary2.7 mi · 545
- Park Place Middle School3.2 mi · 755
Frequently asked questions
About Salem Woods Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Salem Woods Elementary School?
Salem Woods Elementary School enrolls approximately 516 students in grades PK-05.
Is Salem Woods Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Salem Woods Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Salem Woods Elementary School have?
Salem Woods Elementary School employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Salem Woods Elementary School?
Student demographics at Salem Woods Elementary School are roughly 69% White, 13% Hispanic, 1% Black, 11% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Salem Woods Elementary School public or private?
Salem Woods Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Monroe School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.