Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Snohomish High School
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 65 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 40 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Snohomish High School
As a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in Snohomish, Washington, Snohomish High School enrolls 1,496 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Snohomish School District. That puts it 161% bigger than the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.
Snohomish School District runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 9,732 students. Snohomish High School is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Snohomish High School logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Snohomish County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Snohomish High School lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Snohomish County (around 41%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Snohomish High School is in the bottom 10% of Washington public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.3%; Snohomish High School posts 47.8%, -15.5 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Snohomish County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Snohomish High School is one.
Central Primary Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 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 Snohomish High School at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 47.1%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Snohomish High School has decreased 11%, going from 1,674 students in 2018 to 1,496 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 82% to 73%.
On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Snohomish County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- Glacier Peak High SchoolHigh · 1,642 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Dutch Hill ElementaryElementary · 694 students
- Little Cedars Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
- Valley View Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Machias ElementaryElementary · 615 students
- Glacier Peak High SchoolHigh · 1,642 students
- Centennial Middle SchoolMiddle · 734 students
- Dutch Hill ElementaryElementary · 694 students
- Little Cedars Elementary SchoolElementary · 646 students
- Valley View Middle SchoolMiddle · 641 students
- Machias ElementaryElementary · 615 students
- Central Primary Center0.5 mi · 69
- High School Re Entry0.8 mi · 40
- Parent Partnership0.8 mi · 90
- AIM High School0.8 mi · 174
- Central Emerson Elementary0.8 mi · 477
- Snohomish Center0.8 mi · 37