Enrollment
371
Elementary
DISTRICT 409 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530048000127
Spanaway Elementary
412 165th St S, Spanaway, WA 98387 · (253) 800-5300 · Pierce County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL371 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of Washington public elementary schools
- CTest 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
14.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
263 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
40.4%
WA avg 58.4% . -10.0pp since 2014
Math
42.2%
WA avg 51.2% . +2.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 40 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 down about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.4% | 42.2% |
| 2023-24 | 36.4% | 33.5% |
| 2022-23 | 37.8% | 41.6% |
| 2021-22 | 36.5% | 34.4% |
| 2018-19 | 54.6% | 44.9% |
| 2017-18 | 45.5% | 40.6% |
| 2016-17 | 44.6% | 42.9% |
| 2015-16 | 50.0% | 42.2% |
| 2014-15 | 50.3% | 40.1% |
% 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
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Spanaway Elementary
Spanaway Elementary's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanaway Elementary this school | 371 | 70.9% | 37.0% |
| Fircrest Elementary School Vancouver | 341 | 71.0% | N/A |
| Lyon Elementary School Tacoma | 381 | 67.7% | 39.6% |
| Fawcett Elementary School Tacoma | 426 | 65.3% | 32.4% |
| Lacey Elementary Lacey | 368 | 68.2% | 38.2% |
| Garfield Elementary School Everett | 393 | 71.5% | 55.7% |
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 Spanaway Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #686 of 936 | #111 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #598 of 1,103 ▲ 188 | #83 of 142 ▲ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #738 of 1,102 ▲ 80 | #104 of 142 ▲ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.8pp | #217 of 928 | #39 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 371 | #738 of 1,268 | #101 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #195 of 1,085 | #15 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.9% | #96 of 1,088 | #41 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.9% | #250 of 1,169 | #27 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #699 of 778 | #78 of 91 |
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
371
-14 (-4%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 548
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 371 | 25.9 | 14.3:1 | 71% (263) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 25.5 | 13.5:1 | 69% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 364 | 25.8 | 14.1:1 | 70% (254) |
| 2020-21 | 385 | 31 | 12.4:1 | 62% (240) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 24.9 | 15.5:1 | 66% (256) |
| 2015-16 | 337 | 24 | 14.0:1 | 56% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 402 | 23 | 17.5:1 | 45% (182) |
| 2000-01 | 365 | 22 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 548 | 25 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spanaway Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (385 to 371); teachers up 4% (24.9 to 25.9).
About Spanaway Elementary
Spanaway Elementary is a public elementary school in Spanaway, Washington. A federal count lists 371 students at the school, in kindergarten through 5.
Spanaway Elementary is one of the 39 schools that make up Bethel School District (21,732 students in total).
At Spanaway Elementary, the largest share of students is White, at 34%. The school is also 24% Hispanic, 20% multiracial, 8% Black, and 8% Pacific Islander. That is lower than the 64% White share among all Pierce County residents. The school's diversity index is 77%, meaning two students picked at random have a 77% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.3:1, with 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 3.0 students per teacher below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 71% of enrollment. That is higher than the 50% average for public schools in Pierce County.
The allk12 Grade for Spanaway Elementary is C+. Compared with Washington public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 42% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Spanaway Elementary would score about 32.6%. It scores 37.0%, 4.3 points above that figure.
Within Pierce County, the median household income is $99,564, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Besides Spanaway Elementary, Pierce County has 286 other public schools.
Of nearby public schools, BETHEL HOPE EARLY LEARNING CENTER is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. Spanaway Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 45.1%, higher than Spanaway Elementary's 37.0%.
Locale data from NCES put Spanaway Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Over 4 years, Spanaway Elementary's enrollment dropped 4%, to 371. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 12.4:1 to 14.3:1.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethel School District
- Graham Kapowsin High SchoolHigh · 2,087 students
- Spanaway Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,787 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 1,688 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Spanaway Middle SchoolMiddle · 766 students
- Cedarcrest Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
Other schools in Spanaway
- Spanaway Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,787 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 1,688 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Cedarcrest Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
- Bethel Middle SchoolMiddle · 661 students
- Shining Mountain ElementaryElementary · 613 students
Nearby schools
- BETHEL HOPE EARLY LEARNING CENTER0.2 mi · 163
- Acceleration Academy0.2 mi · 450
- Chester H Thompson Elementary0.7 mi · 688
- Thompson Preschool0.7 mi · 227
- Spanaway Middle School0.8 mi · 766
- Camas Prairie Elementary0.9 mi · 529
Frequently asked questions
About Spanaway ElementaryHow many students attend Spanaway Elementary?
Spanaway Elementary enrolls approximately 371 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Spanaway Elementary serve?
Spanaway Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Spanaway Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Spanaway Elementary is approximately 14.3:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Spanaway Elementary?
At Spanaway Elementary, the student body is approximately 34% White, 24% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 20% Two or more.
Is Spanaway Elementary public or private?
Spanaway Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bethel School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.