Salnave Elementary

Salnave Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in CHENEY, Washington, operated by Cheney School District, with 347 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Salnave Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Cheney School District, a district that caters to 5,662 students overall.

On demographics, Salnave Elementary reports that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Spokane County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Salnave Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Salnave Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Salnave Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of -0.9 points.

Across the wider county, Spokane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,582 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Spokane County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students), of which Salnave Elementary is one.

Betz Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Salnave Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salnave Elementary has edged down 7%, going from 374 students in 2018 to 347 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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