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Sultan Senior High School
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sultan Senior High School
Sultan Senior High School, a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in Sultan, Washington, part of Sultan School District, hosts 581 students, covering grades 9 through 12.
Sultan Senior High School is one of 8 schools operated by Sultan School District, a district that educates 2,139 students overall.
On demographics, Sultan Senior High School lists that White students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Snohomish County's rate of about 41%.
After controlling for student poverty, Sultan Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of -6.8 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Snohomish County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,246, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Sultan Senior High School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Sky Valley Options, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Sultan Senior High School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sultan Senior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.6%.
The campus sits in a town-based setting.
Five-year trend. Sultan Senior High School's enrollment has increased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 581). White enrollment moved from 74% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.
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- Student Services School0.5 mi · 32
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