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Does Skyline Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
562
Elementary
DISTRICT 601 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE STEVENS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530420000527
Skyline Elementary
1033 91st Ave SE, Lake Stevens, WA 98258 · (425) 335-1520 · Snohomish County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL562 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Washington public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-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
16.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
198 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
63.0%
WA avg 58.4% . +4.2pp since 2014
Math
63.0%
WA avg 51.2% . +10.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 63.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 58.4% |
| 2022-23 | 62.5% | 54.6% |
| 2021-22 | 63.1% | 50.4% |
| 2018-19 | 69.0% | 52.8% |
| 2017-18 | 66.8% | 60.3% |
| 2016-17 | 59.9% | 56.3% |
| 2015-16 | 58.1% | 53.2% |
| 2014-15 | 58.8% | 52.6% |
% 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
61.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Skyline Elementary
Skyline Elementary's state test result (61.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skyline Elementary this school | 562 | 35.2% | 61.2% |
| Shaw Road Elementary Puyallup | 615 | 35.1% | 60.8% |
| Picnic Point Elementary Edmonds | 454 | 33.0% | 58.8% |
| Stevens Creek Elementary Lake Stevens | 701 | 34.2% | 72.0% |
| Columbia Elementary Mukilteo | 596 | 33.2% | 58.5% |
| Westgate Elementary EDMONDS | 472 | 37.5% | 55.4% |
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 Skyline Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.2% | #241 of 936 | #34 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #222 of 1,103 ▲ 61 | #24 of 106 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #250 of 1,102 ▲ 49 | #33 of 106 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.2pp | #206 of 928 | #19 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 562 | #151 of 1,268 | #31 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #727 of 1,085 | #71 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.2% | #435 of 1,088 | #66 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.2% | #864 of 1,169 | #68 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #710 of 778 | #63 of 68 |
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
562
+37 (+7%) vs 2020
+8% since 2000-01, when it was 519
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 562 | 33.8 | 16.6:1 | 35% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 35.6 | 15.5:1 | 38% (207) |
| 2022-23 | 579 | 36.1 | 16.0:1 | 33% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 34 | 15.4:1 | 25% (133) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 33 | 17.6:1 | 31% (180) |
| 2015-16 | 507 | 27 | 18.8:1 | 41% (209) |
| 2010-11 | 519 | 25 | 20.8:1 | 41% (213) |
| 2000-01 | 519 | 25 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Skyline Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (581 to 562); teachers up 2% (33 to 33.8).
About Skyline Elementary
Skyline Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Lake Stevens, Washington. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 562 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Washington enroll around 380, and this school is 48% larger than that mark.
Lake Stevens School District is made up of 14 schools with 10,117 students in all.
More than half of the students at Skyline Elementary are White (55%). Next come 16% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 8% multiracial, and 7% Black. That compares with about 64% White among all Snohomish County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 64%.
For every teacher at Skyline Elementary, there are about 16.6 students; the school has 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. There are 198 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 35% of enrollment.
Skyline Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 78% of Washington public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Skyline Elementary is +4.6 points: 61.2% actual, 56.6% predicted.
The county, Snohomish County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $111,246, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 227, with about 118,688 students.
Skyline Elementary's nearest public school is Lake Stevens Middle School (about 0.2 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 55.7%; Skyline Elementary's is 61.2%, ranking 4th of 8.
Skyline Elementary is coded as Suburb: Mid-size in federal locale data.
The school grew from 525 students in 2020-21 to 562 in 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.6:1) than in 2020-21 (15.4:1).
On allk12, people connected to Skyline Elementary can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Lake Stevens School District
- Lake Stevens Sr High SchoolHigh · 2,205 students
- Cavelero Mid High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- North Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 842 students
- Lake Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Stevens Creek ElementaryElementary · 701 students
Other schools in Lake Stevens
- Lake Stevens Sr High SchoolHigh · 2,205 students
- Cavelero Mid High SchoolHigh · 1,490 students
- North Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- Hillcrest Elementary SchoolElementary · 842 students
- Lake Stevens Middle SchoolMiddle · 709 students
- Stevens Creek ElementaryElementary · 701 students
Other Skyline Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 8 states are named Skyline Elementary. Skyline Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 14.
- Skyline Elementary SchoolFerndale, WA · 496 students
- Skyline ElementarySpokane, WA · 412 students
- Skyline Elementary SchoolTacoma, WA · 329 students
- SKYLINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCAPE CORAL, FL · 1,141 students
- SKYLINE ELEM.SEDALIA, MO · 483 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Stevens Middle School0.2 mi · 709
- Hillcrest Elementary School0.4 mi · 842
- Glenwood Elementary1.0 mi · 641
- Cavelero Mid High School1.3 mi · 1,490
- Centennial Middle School2.1 mi · 734
- Early Learning Center2.5 mi · 259
Frequently asked questions
About Skyline ElementaryHow large is Skyline Elementary?
Skyline Elementary enrolls approximately 562 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Skyline Elementary serve?
Skyline Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Skyline Elementary?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at Skyline Elementary.
How diverse is Skyline Elementary?
Skyline Elementary reports a student body of 55% White, 16% Hispanic, 7% Black, 14% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Skyline Elementary?
Skyline Elementary is overseen by Lake Stevens School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.