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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Terrace Heights Elementary this year?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
454
Elementary
DISTRICT 510 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (YAKIMA)·NCES 530537000808
Terrace Heights Elementary
101 N 41ST ST, Yakima, WA 98901 · (509) 573-7800 · Yakima County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL454 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of Washington public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-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
16.9:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
301 students
DISTRICT 64% · 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 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within East Valley School District (Yakima). Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
42.3%
WA avg 58.4% . -3.1pp since 2014
Math
37.5%
WA avg 51.2% . -9.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.3% | 37.5% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 41.9% |
| 2022-23 | 41.3% | 42.6% |
| 2021-22 | 48.4% | 45.7% |
| 2018-19 | 56.5% | 59.0% |
| 2017-18 | 58.8% | 57.6% |
| 2016-17 | 62.8% | 58.2% |
| 2015-16 | 57.7% | 46.8% |
| 2014-15 | 45.4% | 47.2% |
% 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
41.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Terrace Heights Elementary
Terrace Heights Elementary's state test result (41.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terrace Heights Elementary this school | 454 | 66.3% | 41.8% |
| Summitview Elementary Yakima | 475 | 66.5% | 44.0% |
| Park Orchard Elementary School Moses Lake | 454 | 64.3% | 42.9% |
| Wide Hollow Elementary Yakima | 433 | 65.1% | 54.9% |
| Grant Elementary EPHRATA | 466 | 68.5% | 33.4% |
| Washington Elementary School KENNEWICK | 405 | 66.9% | N/A |
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 Terrace Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #589 of 936 | #14 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #718 of 1,103 ▼ 126 | #17 of 45 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #685 of 1,102 ▼ 74 | #17 of 45 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.2pp | #79 of 928 | #6 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 454 | #433 of 1,268 | #26 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #794 of 1,085 | #40 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #629 of 1,088 | #5 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #331 of 1,169 | #39 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #541 of 778 | #27 of 40 |
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
454
+16 (+4%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 454 | 26.9 | 16.9:1 | 66% (301) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 30 | 15.3:1 | 72% (332) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 30.8 | 15.3:1 | 73% (344) |
| 2020-21 | 438 | 28 | 15.6:1 | 57% (248) |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 59% (302) |
| 2015-16 | 541 | 29 | 18.7:1 | 57% (309) |
| 2010-11 | 467 | 23 | 20.3:1 | 27% (124) |
| 2000-01 | 402 | 18 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 486 | 22 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Terrace Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (508 to 454); teachers down 13% (31 to 26.9).
About Terrace Heights Elementary
Terrace Heights Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Yakima, Washington, one of the schools in East Valley School District (Yakima). The school serves 454 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
East Valley School District (Yakima) has 3,387 students in 5 schools, and Terrace Heights Elementary is one of those schools.
At 51%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Terrace Heights Elementary combined. After that, the student body is 42% White and 4% multiracial. That is close to the 52% Hispanic share among all Yakima County residents. By the diversity index, Terrace Heights Elementary comes in at 56%.
Its teaching staff equals 26.9 full-time positions, a ratio of 16.9:1. Elementary schools in Washington have a similar average ratio of 17.3:1. Around 66% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 77% average for public schools in Yakima County is 11 points.
The allk12 Grade for Terrace Heights Elementary is C+. Compared with Washington public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 39% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Terrace Heights Elementary scores 41.8% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 35.7%.
Terrace Heights Elementary is located in Yakima County, where median household income is about $70,656, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 119 public schools in Yakima County, with a combined enrollment of about 52,145.
The shortest distance from Terrace Heights Elementary to another public school is about 2.3 miles, to Washington Middle School. The five-mile area around Terrace Heights Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Terrace Heights Elementary ranks 3rd on proficiency.
Terrace Heights Elementary falls in the Suburb: Mid-size locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Terrace Heights Elementary had 438 students in 2020-21 and 454 in 2024-25, a 4% rise. The ratio was 15.6:1 in 2020-21 and 16.9:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Valley School District (Yakima)
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- East Valley Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 792 students
- East Valley ElementaryElementary · 562 students
- Moxee ElementaryElementary · 515 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Nearby schools
- Washington Middle School2.3 mi · 748
- Adams Elementary School2.3 mi · 643
- East Valley High School2.9 mi · 1,064
- Martin Luther King Jr Elementary2.9 mi · 485
- East Valley Elementary2.9 mi · 562
- East Valley Central Middle School3.0 mi · 792
Frequently asked questions
About Terrace Heights ElementaryHow large is Terrace Heights Elementary?
Terrace Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 454 students in grades KG-05.
Is Terrace Heights Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Terrace Heights Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Terrace Heights Elementary have?
Terrace Heights Elementary employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Terrace Heights Elementary?
Student demographics at Terrace Heights Elementary are roughly 42% White, 51% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Terrace Heights Elementary in?
Terrace Heights Elementary is part of East Valley School District (Yakima).
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.