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Enrollment
476
Elementary
DISTRICT 221 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TONASKET SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530894001529
Tonasket Elementary School
35ES HIGHWAY 20, TONASKET, WA 98855 · (509) 486-4933 · Okanogan County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL476 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
354 students
DISTRICT 74% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 29 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Tonasket Elementary School→Tonasket Middle School
Based on grade levels within Tonasket School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
30.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -18.5pp since 2014
Math
33.0%
WA avg 51.2% . -17.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 18 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 17 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.1% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.2% | 27.1% |
| 2022-23 | 26.7% | 26.2% |
| 2021-22 | 28.8% | 25.9% |
| 2018-19 | 45.4% | 41.5% |
| 2017-18 | 53.5% | 42.1% |
| 2016-17 | 45.5% | 45.0% |
| 2015-16 | 44.4% | 46.0% |
| 2014-15 | 48.6% | 50.0% |
% 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
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 Tonasket Elementary School
Tonasket Elementary School's state test result (31.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonasket Elementary School this school | 476 | 74.4% | 31.4% |
| Fords Prairie Elementary Centralia | 443 | 75.4% | 35.3% |
| Bordeaux Elementary School Shelton | 528 | 69.3% | 44.2% |
| Olympic Elementary School Longview | 381 | 71.4% | N/A |
| Grant Elementary EPHRATA | 466 | 68.5% | 33.4% |
| Grand Mound Elementary Rochester | 507 | 66.5% | 45.8% |
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 Tonasket Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Okanogan County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #781 of 936 | #7 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #819 of 1,103 ▲ 86 | #5 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #942 of 1,102 ▲ 38 | #7 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.2pp | #307 of 928 | #5 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 476 | #360 of 1,268 | #1 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #654 of 1,085 | #7 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #650 of 1,088 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.4% | #189 of 1,169 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.7% | #564 of 778 | #6 of 7 |
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
476
+26 (+6%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 853
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 476 | 29.3 | 16.3:1 | 74% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 484 | 32.3 | 15.0:1 | 80% (389) |
| 2022-23 | 474 | 31.4 | 15.1:1 | 84% (398) |
| 2020-21 | 450 | 31 | 14.5:1 | 72% (323) |
| 2017-18 | 527 | 32.1 | 16.4:1 | 70% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 577 | 35 | 16.5:1 | 71% (408) |
| 2010-11 | 530 | 26 | 20.4:1 | 69% (367) |
| 2000-01 | 489 | 28 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 853 | 37 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tonasket Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (527 to 476); teachers down 9% (32.1 to 29.3).
About Tonasket Elementary School
TONASKET, Washington, is home to Tonasket Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 476 students in pre-K through 5. Across elementary schools in Washington, the average enrollment is about 380.
Tonasket Elementary School is one of 5 schools in Tonasket School District, which enrolls 1,104 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show Tonasket Elementary School is 55% White. Other groups make up 39% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Okanogan County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 55, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.3:1. The school has 29.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington is 1.1 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Tonasket Elementary School, 74% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Okanogan County is similar, at 72%.
Tonasket Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.4%, compared with a predicted 30.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Washington schools on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Okanogan County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $63,207 a year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Okanogan County has 38 public schools with about 11,538 students, including Tonasket Elementary School.
Tonasket Outreach School is less than a tenth of a mile from Tonasket Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. Tonasket Elementary School places 4th of 5 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Tonasket Elementary School is in rural territory far from an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Remote.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 476, compared with 450 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 14.5:1 to 16.3:1.
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Okanogan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
43,425
Census ACS
Median income
$63,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
38
11,538 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tonasket School District
- Tonasket High SchoolHigh · 280 students
- Tonasket Middle SchoolMiddle · 221 students
- Tonasket Outreach SchoolCombined · 105 students
- Tonasket Choice High SchoolHigh · 22 students
Other schools in TONASKET
- Tonasket High SchoolHigh · 280 students
- Tonasket Middle SchoolMiddle · 221 students
- Tonasket Outreach SchoolCombined · 105 students
- Tonasket Choice High SchoolHigh · 22 students
Nearby schools
- Tonasket Outreach School0.1 mi · 105
- Tonasket High School0.1 mi · 280
- Tonasket Choice High School0.1 mi · 22
- Tonasket Middle School0.1 mi · 221
- Oroville Elementary15.9 mi · 298
- Oroville Middle-High School16.0 mi · 243
Frequently asked questions
About Tonasket Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Tonasket Elementary School?
Tonasket Elementary School enrolls approximately 476 students in grades PK-05.
Is Tonasket Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Tonasket Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tonasket Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tonasket Elementary School is approximately 16.3:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Tonasket Elementary School?
Tonasket Elementary School reports a student body of 55% White, 39% Hispanic, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Tonasket Elementary School public or private?
Tonasket Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Tonasket School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.