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What advice would you give to incoming students at Silverdale Elementary?
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Enrollment
413
Elementary
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL KITSAP SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530108001754
Silverdale Elementary
9100 DICKEY RD NW, SILVERDALE, WA 98383 · (360) 662-9400 · Kitsap County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
150 students
DISTRICT 40% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 3 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
58.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.2pp since 2014
Math
49.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 56.1% |
| 2022-23 | 62.8% | 53.4% |
| 2021-22 | 59.4% | 52.4% |
| 2018-19 | 61.2% | 49.2% |
| 2017-18 | 62.6% | 50.5% |
| 2016-17 | 67.7% | 56.9% |
| 2015-16 | 70.0% | 56.3% |
| 2014-15 | 61.2% | 51.3% |
% 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
58.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 Silverdale Elementary
Silverdale Elementary's state test result (58.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silverdale Elementary this school | 413 | 36.3% | 58.2% |
| Northern Heights Elementary Schl Bellingham | 396 | 35.9% | 52.0% |
| Bonney Lake Elementary Bonney Lake | 435 | 38.6% | 71.7% |
| Shadow Lake Elementary Maple Valley | 479 | 35.5% | 60.7% |
| Maplewood Elementary Puyallup | 371 | 37.2% | 52.0% |
| Chautauqua Elementary VASHON | 480 | 35.0% | 59.3% |
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 Silverdale Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Kitsap County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #287 of 936 | #10 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #462 of 1,103 ▼ 143 | #22 of 38 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #340 of 1,102 ▼ 95 | #12 of 38 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.4pp | #255 of 928 | #13 of 38 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #579 of 1,268 | #16 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #514 of 1,085 | #30 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #574 of 1,088 | #22 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.3% | #852 of 1,169 | #27 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.2% | #687 of 778 | #26 of 32 |
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
413
+46 (+13%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 612
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 413 | 26.3 | 15.7:1 | 36% (150) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 26.3 | 16.3:1 | 35% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 415 | 27.1 | 15.3:1 | 35% (146) |
| 2020-21 | 367 | 25 | 14.7:1 | 20% (74) |
| 2017-18 | 431 | 24.9 | 17.3:1 | 26% (110) |
| 2015-16 | 433 | 22 | 19.7:1 | 37% (160) |
| 2010-11 | 480 | 26 | 18.5:1 | 20% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 470 | 26 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 612 | 28 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Silverdale Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (431 to 413); teachers up 6% (24.9 to 26.3).
About Silverdale Elementary
Silverdale Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in SILVERDALE, Washington. It educates 413 students in pre-K through 5.
Silverdale Elementary is a school in Central Kitsap School District. The district has 19 schools and 11,100 students.
White students make up a majority at Silverdale Elementary, at 60%. The next largest groups are 18% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, and 4% Asian. In Kitsap County overall, about 75% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.7 students per teacher. That is 1.6 students per teacher below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 36% of students.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 58.2%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 55.8%.
In the county around the school, Kitsap County, the median household income is $104,158, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Kitsap County is home to 77 public schools and about 34,233 public school students.
Central Kitsap High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Silverdale Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Silverdale Elementary ranks 1st of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 58.2% against a local average of 48.0%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 46 more students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.7:1.
Topics for discussion here include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Kitsap County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
277,881
Census ACS
Median income
$104,158
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
34,233 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Central Kitsap School District
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Olympic High SchoolHigh · 1,162 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Fairview Middle SchoolMiddle · 620 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
Other schools in SILVERDALE
- Central Kitsap High SchoolHigh · 1,564 students
- Klahowya SecondaryHigh · 1,016 students
- Ridgetop Middle SchoolMiddle · 784 students
- Central Kitsap Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- Emerald Heights ElementaryElementary · 466 students
- Clear Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 448 students
Other Silverdale Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Silverdale Elementary. Silverdale Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Silverdale ElementaryMaysville, NC · 648 students
Nearby schools
- Central Kitsap High School1.1 mi · 1,564
- Central Kitsap Middle School1.1 mi · 564
- Klahowya Secondary2.0 mi · 1,016
- Ridgetop Middle School2.5 mi · 784
- Silver Ridge Elementary2.6 mi · 430
- Cougar Valley Elementary2.7 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About Silverdale ElementaryHow large is Silverdale Elementary?
Silverdale Elementary enrolls approximately 413 students in grades PK-05.
Is Silverdale Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Silverdale Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Silverdale Elementary have?
Silverdale Elementary employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
How diverse is Silverdale Elementary?
Silverdale Elementary reports a student body of 60% White, 18% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 16% Two or more.
Is Silverdale Elementary public or private?
Silverdale Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Central Kitsap School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.