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Shelton View Elementary
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Shelton View Elementary
Shelton View Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary-level community in Bothell, Washington, overseen by Northshore School District. Current enrollment sits at 513 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 380 students each, so Shelton View Elementary sits 35% larger than that benchmark.
Within Northshore School District, which oversees 37 schools and 22,735 students, Shelton View Elementary is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Shelton View Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 33% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Snohomish County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Snohomish County's rate of about 41%.
With demographic context factored in, Shelton View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.1%, the actual is 74.5%, a residual of +5.5 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Snohomish County shows median household earnings sit near $111,246, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Shelton View Elementary is one.
Frank Love Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shelton View Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 64.3%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Shelton View Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 446 (now 513).
On the community side, members of the Shelton View Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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