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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 523 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GRANDVIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530315000497
Smith Elementary School
205 Fir Ave, Grandview, WA 98930 · (509) 882-8700 · Yakima County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
412 students
DISTRICT 84% · 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 | 97 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 78 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (78).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 12% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Smith Elementary School→Grandview Middle School
Based on grade levels within Grandview School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
25.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -4.6pp since 2014
Math
33.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 9 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.4% | 33.5% |
| 2023-24 | 25.3% | 35.3% |
| 2022-23 | 34.6% | 46.0% |
| 2021-22 | 29.7% | 46.4% |
| 2018-19 | 41.6% | 56.4% |
| 2017-18 | 48.7% | 56.8% |
| 2016-17 | 30.4% | 41.2% |
| 2015-16 | 37.8% | 39.2% |
| 2014-15 | 30.1% | 42.7% |
% 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
28.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 Smith Elementary School
Smith Elementary School's state test result (28.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smith Elementary School this school | 477 | 86.4% | 28.4% |
| Sun Valley Elementary School Sunnyside | 474 | 87.8% | N/A |
| Robert Frost Elementary PASCO | 459 | 89.1% | 17.0% |
| Emerson Elementary PASCO | 447 | 88.8% | 12.8% |
| Lutacaga Elementary Othello | 541 | 84.1% | N/A |
| Virgie Robinson Elementary Pasco | 473 | 89.4% | 21.9% |
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 Smith Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #824 of 936 | #26 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #815 of 1,103 ▼ 82 | #22 of 45 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #1,012 of 1,102 no change | #31 of 45 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.6pp | #53 of 928 | #2 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #353 of 1,268 | #21 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #812 of 1,085 | #42 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.6% | #1,078 of 1,088 | #48 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.4% | #54 of 1,169 | #24 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.7% | #256 of 778 | #15 of 40 |
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
477
-50 (-9%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 408
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 477 | 28.1 | 17.0:1 | 86% (412) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 32 | 14.6:1 | 90% (421) |
| 2022-23 | 485 | 33 | 14.7:1 | 90% (435) |
| 2020-21 | 527 | 30 | 17.6:1 | 77% (405) |
| 2017-18 | 609 | 35 | 17.4:1 | 86% (521) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 28 | 21.2:1 | 87% (518) |
| 2010-11 | 584 | 30 | 19.5:1 | 91% (531) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 22 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 408 | 19 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Smith Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (609 to 477); teachers down 20% (35 to 28.1).
About Smith Elementary School
Smith Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Grandview, Washington. The latest federal count shows 477 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 380-student average for elementary schools in Washington, enrollment here is 26% higher.
District-wide, Grandview School District has 7 schools and 3,583 students.
Most students at Smith Elementary School are Hispanic: 95% of enrollment. The remaining students are 4% White. Census figures show Yakima County is about 52% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Smith Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 10%.
Smith Elementary School's 28.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 17.0:1. Elementary schools in Washington have a similar average ratio of 17.3:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 86%. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Yakima County is 9 points.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Smith Elementary School is +6.1 points: 28.4% actual, 22.3% predicted.
According to the American Community Survey, in Yakima County, median household income is about $70,656, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 19%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Smith Elementary School is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County, which together enroll about 52,145 students.
The nearest other public school, Mabton Step Up To College, is about 0.9 miles away. In all, 7 other public schools sit within five miles of Smith Elementary School. By average proficiency, Smith Elementary School is 4th among 6 schools close by.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Distant.
Enrollment was 527 in 2020-21 and 477 in 2024-25, a decrease of 50 students.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Smith Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Grandview School District
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Grandview Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Thompson Elementary SchoolElementary · 549 students
- Mcclure Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Contract Learning CenterHigh · 34 students
- Step to College Open Doors High SchoolHigh · 5 students
Other schools in Grandview
- Grandview High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Grandview Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Thompson Elementary SchoolElementary · 549 students
- Mcclure Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Contract Learning CenterHigh · 34 students
- Step to College Open Doors High SchoolHigh · 5 students
Other Smith Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 9 states are named Smith Elementary. Smith Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 21.
- Smith Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 730 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 650 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolFRISCO, TX · 642 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolSPRING, TX · 624 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolPRINCETON, TX · 623 students
Nearby schools
- Mabton Step Up To College0.9 mi · 1
- Step to College Open Doors High School0.9 mi · 5
- Mcclure Elementary School1.2 mi · 543
- Contract Learning Center1.3 mi · 34
- Thompson Elementary School1.4 mi · 549
- Grandview Middle School1.6 mi · 815
Frequently asked questions
About Smith Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Smith Elementary School?
Smith Elementary School enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-05.
Is Smith Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Smith Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Smith Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Smith Elementary School is approximately 17.0:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Smith Elementary School?
Student demographics at Smith Elementary School are roughly 4% White, 95% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Smith Elementary School?
Smith Elementary School is overseen by Grandview School District in Yakima County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.