Special Services

Special Services is an unified-grade school of one-room-style scale in Everett, Washington, part of Mukilteo School District, works with 45 students in grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 204 students each, so Special Services sits 78% below that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Mukilteo School District (15,175 students total), Special Services accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Special Services shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 38% White, 16% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Snohomish County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Special Services logs 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 33.2:1, putting Special Services tighter than the state norm the norm. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Snohomish County indicate the typical household earns roughly $111,246 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Snohomish County's 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), Special Services is one campus in the mix.

Explorer Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Special Services operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Special Services has shrank 50%, going from 90 students in 2018 to 45 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 23% to 40%. Class-load math has tightened: from 45.0:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.

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