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Enrollment
632
Elementary
DISTRICT 462 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMONDS SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530240000362
Spruce Elementary
17405 Spruce Way, LYNNWOOD, WA 98037 · (425) 431-7720 · Snohomish County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL632 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
410 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 94 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 17% larger than its 6th grade class (94).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
37.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -12.6pp since 2014
Math
32.3%
WA avg 51.2% . -15.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 16 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.2% | 32.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.8% | 37.3% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | 40.2% |
| 2021-22 | 34.4% | 29.9% |
| 2018-19 | 45.5% | 38.1% |
| 2017-18 | 52.3% | 41.8% |
| 2016-17 | 55.3% | 54.8% |
| 2015-16 | 54.9% | 47.8% |
| 2014-15 | 49.8% | 47.9% |
% 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
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Spruce Elementary
Spruce Elementary's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Elementary this school | 632 | 64.9% | 38.7% |
| Lake Stickney Elementary School Lynnwood | 628 | 59.6% | 38.6% |
| Fairmount Elementary Everett | 510 | 61.4% | 35.6% |
| Des Moines Elementary Des Moines | 500 | 62.6% | 37.1% |
| Odyssey Elementary Everett | 526 | 62.4% | 35.7% |
| Lake Hills Elementary Bellevue | 498 | 66.3% | 36.9% |
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 Spruce Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Snohomish County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #653 of 936 | #81 of 105 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #833 of 1,103 ▼ 132 | #89 of 106 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #821 of 1,102 ▼ 217 | #87 of 106 ▼ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.6pp | #396 of 928 | #49 of 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 632 | #72 of 1,268 | #21 of 118 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #289 of 1,085 | #28 of 109 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.3% | #132 of 1,088 | #7 of 110 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.9% | #359 of 1,169 | #19 of 114 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.6% | #79 of 257 | #12 of 37 |
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
632
+139 (+28%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 506
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 632 | 42.8 | 14.8:1 | 65% (410) |
| 2023-24 | 620 | 38.9 | 15.9:1 | 72% (449) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 33.3 | 15.8:1 | 60% (314) |
| 2020-21 | 493 | 37 | 13.3:1 | 46% (229) |
| 2017-18 | 542 | 33.8 | 16.0:1 | 52% (281) |
| 2015-16 | 537 | 30 | 17.9:1 | 54% (291) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | 20 | 22.0:1 | 37% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 514 | 24 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 506 | 23 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Spruce Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (542 to 632); teachers up 27% (33.8 to 42.8).
About Spruce Elementary
Spruce Elementary is an elementary school located in LYNNWOOD, Washington, in Snohomish County. Enrollment totals 632 students across kindergarten through 6. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Spruce Elementary sits within Edmonds School District, which has 37 schools and 20,955 students.
The student body at Spruce Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 31%. Enrollment also includes 31% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 16% Black, and 4% multiracial. The school's White share is 33 points below the 64% share among Snohomish County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 75%.
For every teacher at Spruce Elementary, there are about 14.8 students; the school has 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Washington, 17.3:1, is higher. There are 410 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 65% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Snohomish County is 41%.
Test results at Spruce Elementary are 2.0 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (38.7% actual, 36.7% predicted).
In Snohomish County, home to about 844,430 people, median household income comes to about $111,246, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Snohomish County's 227 public schools enroll about 118,688 students and include Spruce Elementary.
Of the public schools around it, Spruce Elementary is closest to Lynnwood Elementary, about 0.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Spruce Elementary places 7th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
NCES assigns Spruce Elementary the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased by 28% across 4 years, from 493 in 2020-21 to 632 in 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.3:1 to 14.8:1 over the same years.
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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 Edmonds School District
- Edmonds Woodway High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Mountlake Terrace High SchoolHigh · 1,456 students
- Lynnwood High SchoolHigh · 1,335 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
Other schools in LYNNWOOD
- Meadowdale High SchoolHigh · 1,491 students
- Meadowdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Alderwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 679 students
- Lake Stickney Elementary SchoolElementary · 628 students
- Lynnwood ElementaryElementary · 578 students
- Hilltop ElementaryElementary · 562 students
Other Spruce Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Spruce Elementary. Spruce Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Spruce ElementarySouth San Francisco, CA · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Lynnwood Elementary0.8 mi · 578
- Beverly Elementary1.0 mi · 413
- Meadowdale High School1.3 mi · 1,491
- Cedar Valley Elementary1.6 mi · 427
- Meadowdale Middle School1.7 mi · 740
- Meadowdale Elementary1.7 mi · 430
Frequently asked questions
About Spruce ElementaryHow large is Spruce Elementary?
Spruce Elementary enrolls approximately 632 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Spruce Elementary serve?
Spruce Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Spruce Elementary have?
Spruce Elementary employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Spruce Elementary?
Student demographics at Spruce Elementary are roughly 31% White, 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 17% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Spruce Elementary?
Spruce Elementary is overseen by Edmonds School District in Snohomish County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.